I stumbled across E.M. Forster’s story “The Machine Stops” online years ago, and his dystopian vision still haunts the edges of my thoughts. When I think about technology, social media, and the relationship between ideas and reality—or when I just have that dazed, floaty feeling from spending too much time staring at screens—I sometimes picture Forster’…
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