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	The Machine Stops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He goes on to say that the Machine recaptured him, and that he has been threatened with 'Homelessness', that is, expulsion from the underground environment and presumed death.
		He comes to believe that the Machine is breaking down, and he tells Vashti cryptically, "The Machine stops." For a time, Vashti continues with her life, but eventually defects begin to appear in the Machine.
		The final destruction of the mechanical society of the Machine is not without hope, in that Kuno and Vashti recapture a part of the spirit of life and embrace each other for the first time, a mother and her son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Machine_Stops (843 words)

	Alert and Alarmed: The Machine Stops
		The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.’ And before long this allocution was printed on the first page of the Book.
		When ‘The Machine Stops’ was made available to a larger audience in 1928, it was met with a certain condescension.
		The astute commentators noted that Forster was responding to the contemporary literary utopias of Edward Bellamy and H. Wells, with (according to the novelist Rose Macaulay) a touch of ‘Chestertonian mechanophobia; in manner and matter it is the least Forsterian of his writings’.
	alertandalarmed.blogspot.com /2005/09/machine-stops.html (2150 words)

	Roamer's Zone: The Machine Stops
		The Machine by E.M. Forster is a story that I didn't understand entirely the first time that I read it over, and thats partly because of the manner in which it was told.
		Because the machine is viewed as a God to these people, when it stops working that is representative of the crucifiction of Jesus Christ.
		To those that did not conform to the ways of the machine, they were viewed as having become un-mechanical and in the same regard un-Christian/immoral.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /LeslieRodriguez/007482.html (338 words)

	The Machine Stops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		I don't know exactly what to say about the machine except for the fact that I understand what the story is describing.
		In some ways 'the machine' has already started in that many people rely too heavily on electronical connections rather than real ones.
		Instead of setting up meetings people have conference calls on the phone because they're too busy to go somewhere - this is similar to the 'lectures' that Vashti gave while still in her room.
	www.carlow.edu /honors1/_honors1/0000002b.htm (147 words)

	Essay on The Machine Stops E M Forster Effects of the Machine on two characters in the story, Kuno and Vashti.
		Essay on The Machine Stops E M Forster Effects of the Machine on two characters in the story, Kuno and Vashti.
		The Machine Stops E M Forster Effects of the Machine on two characters in the story, Kuno and Vashti.
		Throughout the whole of this short story, 'The Machine Stops', we are shown the possibility of a world dominated by machines.
	www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/The_Machine_Stops_E_M_Forster_-172890.html (262 words)

	THE MACHINE STOPS
		But she thought of Kuno as a baby, his birth, his removal to the public nurseries, her own visit to him there, his visits to her-visits which stopped when the Machine had assigned him a room on the other side of the earth.
		They stopped - the thing was unforeseen - and the man, instead of picking up his property, felt the muscles of his arm to see how they had failed him.
		The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine." And before long this allocution was printed on the first page of the Book, and in subsequent editions the ritual swelled into a complicated system of praise and prayer.
	www3.sympatico.ca /cogito/Gr11/the_machine_stops.html (10695 words)

	Gilded Prisons of Technology
		The lights go out, the incessant flow of consumer goods stops arriving in people's rooms, and a decadent humanity suddenly has a real experience: of its own mass death and the destruction of its civilization, which can't survive without the ministrations of the machine.
		In a single note of optimism, that is as Spartan as the life described in the story, the author suggests that this society has to die so a more vigorous society can be reestablished on the earth's surface.
		The part that is denied goes underground into the unconscious and must be released and reunited with the part in control, for the self to become whole.
	www.transparencynow.com /mach1.htm (715 words)

	NIH: "The Machine Stops"
		Anyway, "The Machine Stops" is an account of events in the lives of a woman named Vashti and of her son Kuno some time after 1928 (the exact period is not specified), when society has become one huge machine.
		The Machine has developed (or to use their term, evolved) to a point where society's needs can be taken care of without human labour, or so people are led to believe.
		It is more likely that The Machine is in fact governed undemocratically, either as a one-party state or by an association of self-appointed organizations.
	www.interlog.com /~jfitzger/machine1.htm (1708 words)

	Research Paper on The Machine Stops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		"The Machine Stops" is set in the distant future, when mankind has come to depend on a worldwide Machine for food, housing, communications and medical care.
		The penalty for such an act of freedom is death, death for something a human should have the right to do.
		In conclusion, the Machine prohibits individuality and freedom, and creates a world of complete reliance for humankind.
	www.paper-research.com /paper/The_Machine_Stops-41367.html (167 words)

	Science Fiction
		Rise of the Machines - Isaac Asimov turned androids into pop culture icons - and invented the science of robotics in the process.
		Many early movies had a robot or machine that could talk (Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!), but one movie really defined in a moment, for many of us, what AI was all about.
		Machine Love - The latest component of the digital office, the Sprout G9 iPerson is a walking, talking coding machine programmed to fit seamlessly into its work environment by learning from its human co-workers.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/scifi.html (5099 words)

	Kelly's Big Guy and E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops
		The Machine Stops impresses with its amazingly accurate extrapolation of an information society at a time when not even the concepts for basic parts of it like computers or monitors existed.
		Forster's extrapolation of a single all-encompassing machine is a logical conclusion to this.
		If there is one big machine, the individual has no chance to use it for his or her purposes, it is beyond his or her capacities.
	webdoc.sub.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/artic96/borsch/11_96.html (4083 words)

	THE MACHINE STOPS ... E.M. Forster
		The Machine is much, but it is not everything.
		When she signaled, it stopped, and she tottered into the lift.
		His was not a type that the Machine desired to hand on.
	brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu /~prajlich/forster.html (10830 words)

	The Machine Stops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It was a little hard to follow, i found the language a little difficult to understand.
		basically what i got from the story is that the 2 main characters lived their lives through machines...
		it kindof applies to a little of what is going on today b/c we've started comunicating and everything through machines, computers and telephones, it almost makes human contact a non-thing anymore.
	www.carlow.edu /honors1/_honors1/00000047.htm (127 words)

	Amazon.com: The Machine Stops: Books: E. M. Forster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		They are the people who have (so far) ensured that the machine doesn't stop.
		The Machine Stops is quite possibly one of the most long and dried out pieces of literature I have ever read.
		The theme behind this book is that we have become so dependant on machines that they now are apart of us, from our of need to our love for religion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1419171119?v=glance (947 words)

	KellynMiller: "The machine stops"
		Everybody seemed to be bashing "the machine stops" in class really horribly.
		The machine stops is one of the best novellas I've ever read.
		Sounds like your classmates are just a bit dumb to me. ^_^ Keep a bag of toffees in your pocket and whenever one of them says something that is't totally retarded you can give them a little chewy gift and an understanding pat on the head.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /KellynMiller/007441.html (383 words)

	Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan): The Machine Stops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In this story, Earth's inhabitants have moved below terra firma where their every need is met and every act controlled by "the machine." A young rebel protesting against the loss of authenticity and the reverence for abstraction seeks to communicate with his mother about his need to go to the surface of the earth.
		This act of direct experience terrifies his mother who is sure that her son will be sentenced to "homelessness." The son does experience the beauty of the earth and returns to prophesize the end of the machine and the "civilization" it created.
		One of several "fantasies" written by Forster prior to World War I, "The Machine Stops" was written as "a counterblast to one of the heavens of H.G.Wells" (from the preface to the collection).
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/forster379-des-.html (198 words)

	sts3700b: THE MACHINE STOPS by E.M. Forster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own—the civilization that had mistaken the functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things, instead of for bringing things to people.
		But she thought of Kuno as a baby, his birth, his removal to the public nurseries, her own visit to him there, his visits to her—visits which stopped when the Machine had assigned him a room on the other side of the earth.
		If he had known that the music was out of repair—he could not know it, for he detested music—if he had known that it was wrong, 'the Machine stops' was exactly the venomous sort of remark he would have made.
	www.yorku.ca /sasit/sts/sts3700b/e_m_forster.html (10596 words)

	Term Paper on the machine stops
		‘The Machine Stops’ Communities and communications are progressing each and every day.
		Regardless of the different perspectives that have been adopted in the study of the cities, communities and communications are intended to impact reciprocally, either in a positive or negative way.
		At the same time, technologies have also caused many unpredicted catastrophes to the human world, as illustrated in E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/the_machine_stops-31019.html (184 words)

	Edge: THE PANCAKE PEOPLE, OR, "THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD"
		Machines that behave unpredictably tend to be viewed as malfunctioning, unless we are playing games of chance.
		Bit by bit one would be able to allow the machine to make more and more ‘choices' or ‘decisions.' One would eventually find it possible to program it so as to make its behaviour the result of a comparatively small number of general principles.
		My other character was Rosa and she pointed out that at the very beginning of this business that Lugubrioso kept referring to, in stentorian tones, as "Western Civilization," Plato deplored the newfangled technology of writing and worried that it tolled the death of thought.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/foreman05/foreman05_index.html (6298 words)

	Aspects of E.M. Forster: The Machine Stops (1909)
		O Machine!' and raised the volume to her lips.
		It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.
		There were gradations of terror - at times came rumours of hope-the Mending Apparatus was almost mended - the enemies of the Machine had been got under - new 'nerve-centres' were evolving which would do the work even more magnificently than before.
	emforster.de /hypertext/template.php3?t=tms (10797 words)

	Book Report on The Machine stops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Harlan Ellison illustrates this in “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” that an anti-technology viewpoint of machines can be used as the controlling force of the future.
		“The Machine Stops” by Edward Forester also demonstrates this realization.
		Ellison, he exerts the governing force through his machine AM.
	www.newessay.com /database/The_Machine_stops-119637.html (152 words)

	Amazon.com: The Machine Stops: And Other Stories (Abinger Edition of E M Forster): Books: E. M. Forster,Rod Mengham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Amazon.com: The Machine Stops: And Other Stories (Abinger Edition of E M Forster): Books: E. Forster,Rod Mengham
		Reading Forster's short story "The Machice Stops" made me understand and think a lot about computer use in our everyday life.
		His writings are like a prediction of what may come if people remain as arrogant and selfish as they already are.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0233991670?v=glance (824 words)

	Libraries in Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		An all-powerful computer, the Hedonic Machine, is in charge of everyone's welfare, and not only guarantees total happiness but outlaws unhappiness.
		Forster dramatized the humanist's fear of the computer as long ago as 1909 with "The Machine Stops": Given the opportunity, humanity will turn over the control of its life and thought to the machine, and then the machine will break down.
		Something that can be started and stopped at will [and] requires no electric energy to operate." This dream device is, of course, the book.
	ftp2.cc.ku.edu /~sfcenter/library.htm (3656 words)

	The Machine Stops! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Similarly, the population of this story begins to worship the Machine, praying to verses from its intsruction manual.
		Unable to repair itself, the Machine stops one day, bringing masses of shocked, frightened people outside their rooms to die.
		The dependency on the machine is analogous to what society could have experienced with a Y2K crisis.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~mthoma10/englweb/humanities.htm (738 words)

	Intro to Literary Study (2005): Forster, ''The Machine Stops''
		Excerpt: I was surprised (in a good way mind you) when I read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster.
		Excerpt: The story, The Machine Stops struck me as a response to the sudden increase in media and argues many points in accordance to behaviorism, which was gaining popularity around that time.
		Excerpt: When I read E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," the first thing that I thought of was the hours I spend on my computer a night, and I was worried......
	blogs.setonhill.edu /DennisJerz/EL150/2005/006610.php (474 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Machine Stops (Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Buy The Machine Stops (Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster S.) with Alexandria (Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster S.) today!
		The Machine Stops is a stark warning against too much reliance on technology, relevant now even more than when it was written, with the increase of computers in the home and the internet.
		A brilliant science fiction story written at a time whn few stories like that were written.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0233991670 (400 words)

	The Machine Stops
		What do you suppose E.M. Forster is trying to say when Vashti passes Greece and says “No ideas here”?
		Even though this story was written in 1909, what machine can we relate to The Machine in the story?
		Why does Kuno say mankind is dying and the only real thing that is living is The Machine?
	homepage.mac.com /jkanach3/Sci_Fi_Notebook/pages/110.html (82 words)

	The Machine Stops
		General Rants » General Rants » The Machine Stops
		Forster's THE MACHINE STOPS, published almost a century ago, posits a world in the future in which the human race gives up any individual responsibility to an immense computerized system that meets every need -- until it fails.
		Those who dream of the perfectibility of human institutions through increasingly, compulsorily collective government will always attack the highest levels of government when it does fail.
	rantweb.proboards4.com /index.cgi?board=general&action=print&thread=1126247983 (2225 words)

	"The Machine Stops"
		In a Machine Civilization of the future where all human contact is mediated by technology, Vashti lives a contented life isolated in her apartment and cannot understand why her son Kuno wants to explore the world above ground.
		Why is Kuno unable to effect any change upon his return?
		How does the Machine change just before it stops?
	www.nvcc.edu /home/ataormina/scifi/works/stories/machinestop.htm (130 words)

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