Quiztime*: Living in a COVID-19 world or ‘The Machine Stops’?
EM Forster’s seminal novella was already hailed as prescient…but now it’s downright freekin’ creepy
3 min readMar 19, 2020
E.M. Forster wrote ‘The Machine Stops’ in 1908/9 and for years people have marvelled at its remarkable predictive ability – of the internet and global communications. But few thought we would be…