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A video essay on how E.M. Forster predicted Twitter, YouTube, and the inevitable decay of social media over a hundred years ago, and what we can learn from his dystopian short story The Machine Stops.

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SOURCES

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster:
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
Some Interviews with E. M. Forster, 1957-58, 1965:
jstor.org/stable/441863
"The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms" by Ross Barkan:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/new-romanticism-technology-backlash

Sound effects obtained from zapsplat.com

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