The Machine Stops (FULL Audiobook)

[@YorumiTech]

How amazing, a man in 1909 can think of a thing like this, he is like a prophet, knows that machine is the future, what a man

[@slashbash1347]

Hello from 2020! It's even more true now.

[@oliversmith9200]

I wonder who much later author's, such as Asimov, Philip K Dick, were inspired by these early extrapolations?

[@ShallKnot]

Life imitating art, or a design set in motion long before this book was written?

[@danielgregory711]

Woman

[@jakeruiz7421]

I’m pretty sure it was a woman that wrote it.

[@mojowwwav4357]

Amazing, I remember my uncle trying to read this to me when I was 8 or 9, I had no interest in it, but as I am now 18 I feel like I can truly appreciate the genius of the author, especially given how my generations whole world revolves around social media.

[@thejogayogafiles]

@Mojoww You may find that, as you age, history and mystery take on more importance.

[@alexBaldman]

What tangled webs we weave takes on new meaning

[@rettl.9720]

Does it now make you think of life under Ai?

[@baughbolen]

Here are quick timestamps for the parts: Part 1: 0:26 Part 2: 31:07 Part 3: 57:10

[@giancarloramirez2462]

just know that you're a king for this

[@rickie-89]

Thanks men.

[@plaguex1]

This and what the controllers of the machine are doing to humans in 2020 is horrifying. It matches closer than ever. You do not even need to leave your house anymore at all to survive.

[@megalorain]

@Redrustyhill well to be honest it's unfortunate one can't work to a point the state stops taking.

[@fewntug3760]

@Redrustyhill you can pay for rent and taxes by working from home

[@grayeaglej]

Welcome to Planet: Amazon o.o

[@speedysteve9121]

My life is GOOD! And comfy, and I thank my Father for every second of it. Now about music during the Australian Period. Must be ACDC and The Easybeats. All unrest is concentrated in the soul.

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Eerily prescient. I get chills listening to this, and realising it was written over 100 years ago.

[@PoweredDown]

Spoiler alert: The machine stops

[@ForeverMasterless]

I laughed way too hard at this.

[@rjones2209]

Actually the book has now been updated thanks to modern technology, and the machine goes on forever.

[@maidintheusa264]

6 yrs later its still going and the machine is getting bigger

[@Vigilant_Guardian]

I fiddle with the Machine like a finely tuned Stratovarius yet, the machine plays for no one -yet everyone- gathered round listening to the sounds... of silence , hello darkness my ole friend, I've come to talk with you again.

[@princesskenyetta4745]

Hyperreality: not knowing the difference between reality and a simulation of reality.

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

If we are going to remember Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and the other inventors of sci-fi, we must not omit this brilliant man and astoundingly prophetic story.

[@aperson2730]

A thank you to the 'Machine' for making this available (winking smiley face).

[@Phil99470]

Ho ho ho!

[@LucBoeren]

Ha Ha Ha!

[@Katiedid1975]

Brilliant. I think he must have had a little time travel experience before he wrote this. It's an absolute prophecy.

[@jamesmitchell504]

Nice! Feels a little creepy listening to this while on my own in a room on social media. I wonder if Forster would have got a facebook account?

[@fruityhatfield-peverel1939]

Of COURSE he would! - Only connect... ;)

[@lucyloo2520]

And now, I sit immune compromised, husband working from home, Covid-19 all around as he communicates through internet and I with my iPad, iPhone and laptop.

[@didibergman2306]

@@lucyloo2520 The Machine Starts...

[@ScottCreley]

Just wait for COVID, my past dude. You'll learn to love the cell.

[@Sleepy12ftPanda]

Hits me with the pandemic feels, man.

[@antonnova9955]

A very interesting book. The audio is also a good listen. Hawkwind has released a great musical album/cd based on this book also called "HAWKWIND-THE MACHINE STOPS" The band Hawkwind has also released a cd based on the book STEPPENWOLF and is a great cd release as well.

[@silasmarup-dalsten4073]

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[@phoebebarlow4435]

Was wall-e based off of this story? Its very simmalar. No one talked face to face, no one had need for muscles, everything came to you and no one had the need to see anything new. There are so many similarities

[@casard5235]

Hiya, This story published in 1909 is quite predictive as to what is happening today and tomorrow. Hoping to turn my son onto it. He's just turned 21 and is fairly wired in. A blend of technology and humanity opens paths. Tally-ho

[@adm58]

Thank you for this. Amazing that he imagined this is 1909.

[@sadiswan]

this was the class reader when I was 10 or 11. I remember watching thx1138 sometime around then too and it just stuck. 30 years later it's still creepy to hear

[@misstreebird]

+sadiswan even creepier to see... feel... witness

[@MoreRubberyThanTurgid]

Wow, brilliant. Very reminiscent of Howey's Silo trilogy in theme and tone yet written more than 100 years before. Prophetic work.

[@imcintyre01]

55:41 Woah, these things are getting crazy!

[@JohnDoe-hy5ed]

It's weird. All these people do every day is give lectures and listen to lectures.

[@JohnGalt916]

Only 10 minutes ... i.think she just has a banging KZbin

[@kingnothing2161]

Aka me listening to podcast highlights and news all day

[@JohnDoe-hy5ed]

@@kingnothing2161 Good observation. I had not thought about it that way. In our world, the machine is the internet and the repair apparatus is the power grid. If those two things go out then our way of life changes big time. That would make the people living outside the machine in this story similar to our modern day "pray to Jesus!" end of the world preppers.

[@absurdcamus9645]

43:55 (bookmark)

[@chernobylFarms]

"Childhood's Perpetuation" Note the declared paucity of Ideas! Machine forbid, citizens might learn to do for themselves.

[@ti_finny4166]

Questions for “The Machine Stops” Pg. 1-3 1. Why is Vashti irritated? How does this relate to our society? 2. How does Vashti communicate with others? How is this similar to today? 3. What does Vashti look like? Why do you think she looks like this? Vashti looks like, "a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus." 4. What gives Kuno an idea? 5. What is the “imponderable bloom”? Is it important or, like Vashti thinks, unimportant? (Ponder means to think carefully. If something is imponderable it cannot be thought carefully about or conveyed through language. There is always something (the imponderable) that escapes thought and language. Bloom is related to beauty, flourishing, thriving and health. To say that the bloom is taken off means to say that the interest, enjoyment or desire for that thing has been dampened or removed. It has lost its luster, vitality and life.) Pg. 4-7 1. After talking to Kuno, “For a moment, Vashti felt lonely (pg. 3).” What comforts her? 2. What does Vashti’s ritual with the Book of the Machine remind you of? 3. Why is Vashti scared? What does this remind you of in our world? 4. Why did the dropping of the book disquiet all who were boarding the ship and why did no one pick it up? 5. Why do you think Vashti was so angry over not receiving the best cabin? Pg. 8-11 1. What did the attendant do at the bottom of page 7 and top of page 8 that was ‘careless’? Why is this action described as ‘careless’? 2. What has happened to ‘common interests’? 3. Why do the mountains give Vashti no ideas? 4. What is “Homelessness”? 5. How does this society view physical strength? Why might this be? Pg. 12-15 1. Kuno thinks that ‘man’ is the measure? What does this mean and what does Vashti think is the measure or valuator of all things? 2. What might Kuno mean by saying that “the spirits of the dead comforted” him? 3. What does Kuno mean when he says “we are too different, mother”? 4. What does Kuno mean when he says that “We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die” (pg. 15). 5. Where did Kuno go?

[@hellfrost333]

You should be a Teacher (Had a Teacher just like you once, never taught me a thing, just asked a-lot questions I didn't particularly have answers for)

[@rickie-89]

WOW I really have an essay on this book right now and you make a brilliant Teacher.

[@veronicaconway9362]

absolutely brilliant.

[@alfjohns9158]

I presume that she got pregnant with Kuno by way of artificial insemination.

[@Onkarr]

Did Amazon and co take Inspiration from this book or was it a user guide?

[@tippedbow8672]

time stamp 30:20 section two begins

[@nothajzl]

I fell asleep listening to this book circa chapter one and when i woke up i heard “and the machine stops” and the book ended 😂😂

[@selflove96]

Thanks for sharing

[@meatybeatybignbouncy]

She had me at "Throbbing".

[@MoreRubberyThanTurgid]

meatybeatybignbouncy She had me at her surname.

[@lancsl4d]

The Machine Stops....New HAWKWIND Album....APRIL 15th

[@misstreebird]

+lancsl4d yeah, if you pre-ordered! MP3 2day, or wait til 5/6? Dang tech - I want it now!

[@harrissteve25]

2 people don't like this it's one of my favorite ones.

[@davedogge2280]

Spoiler alert: This is just like the big 2020 lockdown but predicted 100 years ago.

[@plaguex1]

Yup. And protests now too

[@breandadavis3168]

This is like many things. You can apply it to dominate culture, politics, economic systems, technology, religions, non-religious, many, many things AND their inverse. It says something much deeper about the human condition, not actual future events.

[@davedogge2280]

@@breandadavis3168 nevertheless I think that E.M. Forster got it absolutely right with this story. People living alone in their small rooms with only a small screen in front of them that dominates their time where they just 'exchange ideas' and don't produce much. The dependency on technology and (maybe) our future downfall because of it. A warning from the past is this story.

[@PAPAGRANDE50]

Thank you so much

[@sammiller2617]

Alarmingly prescient...

[@tinycrimester]

Ahaha... oh those silly future people... Surely nothing like this could REALLY happen....

[@rettl.9720]

A terrifying glimpse into Ai

[@misterw2688]

Yeah it’s pretty good. But does it beat listening to “YANKEE WITH NO BRIM” for 10 hours straight? Afraid not. 4/7

[@this-is-ridiculous8462]

Thanks for this ! :)

[@Eskay1206]

sounds like a premonition of facebook

[@imcintyre01]

1:06:49 checkpoint

[@plaguex1]

*bookmark* 56:57

[@tomsea5769]

or another universe where the view of the sun and deck descriptions she was getting painted with had simulated that air ships at the time coulda been a luxary item. where all three of your sense are being messed with four if its gravity on a air ship. if a future were to be thought of in a positive light. It all comes down to constants and variables.

[@josediez2129]

What coming is going to make lock down look like a walk in the park.

[@dykula5017]

HOW DID HE KNOW THIS

[@michaelnoonan352]

I've also written a dystopian story, outlining a potential, grim future for mankind, that you might find of interest. It is called THE DREAMLESS SLEEP, and is in a collection of my stories entitled: SEVEN TALL TALES; available at Amazon as a book or a kindle. It concerns a ruthless dictatorship's deliberate misuse of a scientific invention in order to control and pacify the populace; and of one person's stubborn and courageous resistance to this - but which proves as ineffective and futile as the resistance to power that takes place in Orwell's great dystopias. Happy listening, and reading. Read more

[@silasmarup-dalsten4073]

Wow that is so great. Where can i buy this book? I need some fuel for my bondfire.

[@Amy-ee3qk]

@@silasmarup-dalsten4073 Haha! Good one! :)

[@MrBones130]

Bob Garfield's excellent "Bully Pulpit" podcast brought me here.

[@grayeaglej]

The World brought to you by Amazon o.o

[@carbon1479]

I almost wonder if he had a biology background or at least a lot of knowledge in that area to be able to think of this frame.

[@ericdicicco976]

This makes me think of the tower of babel

[@aymenhashmat9864]

18:43 (book mark)

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

No ideas here...

[@carbon1479]

In a lot of ways Snowpiercer feels like it's a kind of knock-off on this.

[@kaylolli]

It was hard to keep listening to her son talk lol. She was all like “keep going” and I was like nooo stfu

[@jamesdavis3340]

wall-e

[@teigancarter93]

31:27 bookmark

[@mitchbillingsley7466]

i wonder how long before this gets cencored now that doing that is so common place?

[@Henry-xt6ls]

50:13

[@prometheus8457]

56:52 (book mark)

[@missrabbit6509]

Time traveling is real

[@megalorain]

*This is the og steampunk*

[@jennyramales12]

30:07

[@householdone7559]

"Humanity has learnt its lesson" - probably the most incorrect line of the whole book. Humaniy never learns.... the hubris of humanity is too great. The machine would be created again with "oh but this time"

[@beatricevaillancourt96]

56:48

[@silasmarup-dalsten4073]

SPoiler alert. She dies

[@С.Н.̥]

Praise the machine! Or, I guess, no.

[@Random_Tangent]

The title implies too much. I feel like a better title would have been "The Great Machine".

[@Sindoku]

A “queer” temper.

[@Mary42877]

all these stories are the same...as if people would be fine living like that, in one room. that is so...lacking nuance!

[@ForeverMasterless]

I don't know... I live in a one-bedroom apartment that's practically one room, and I work from home thanks to the power of the internet, and hardly ever go out. This is basically describing my life right now, lol.

[@lucyloo2520]

@@ForeverMasterless And think of today, right now with the coronavirus. My husband working from home. Myself immune compromised, on my laptop, on my iPhone, on my iPad..

[@themodfather9382]

.. What?

[@jrtrack837]

30:41 bookmark

[@Gandalf890123]

40:34 bookmark