The Machine Stops (FULL Audiobook)
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The Machine Stops аudiobook
by E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". Each individual lives in an isolated, fully-automated cell-like room, connected to global information and communication systems, but cut off from all direct experience. The narrative focuses on Vashti, an "advanced" mother whose total dependence upon The Machine has led her (like most others) to increasingly reverence and even worship it; and her "untechnological" son, Kuno, who has begun to deny The Machine's omnipotence and even seeks to escape if possible. Kuno's radical views are validated as the The Machine's systems begin to malfunction and eventually fail completely.
The story has proved to be far ahead of its time, with remarkably accurate predictions of modern technologies, and paints a chilling picture of over-dependence on them. This recording marks the 100th anniversary of the original publishing. (Summary by Jerome Lawsen)
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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
Hello from 2020! It's even more true now.
I wonder who much later author's, such as Asimov, Philip K Dick, were inspired by these early extrapolations?
Life imitating art, or a design set in motion long before this book was written?
Woman
I’m pretty sure it was a woman that wrote it.
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.
@Mojoww You may find that, as you age, history and mystery take on more importance.
What tangled webs we weave takes on new meaning
Does it now make you think of life under Ai?
Here are quick timestamps for the parts:
Part 1: 0:26
Part 2: 31:07
Part 3: 57:10
just know that you're a king for this
Thanks men.
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.
@Redrustyhill well to be honest it's unfortunate one can't work to a point the state stops taking.
@Redrustyhill you can pay for rent and taxes by working from home
Welcome to Planet: Amazon o.o
Spoiler alert: The machine stops
I laughed way too hard at this.
Actually the book has now been updated thanks to modern technology, and the machine goes on forever.
6 yrs later its still going and the machine is getting bigger
Hyperreality: not knowing the difference between reality and a simulation of reality.
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.
A thank you to the 'Machine' for making this available (winking smiley face).
Ho ho ho!
Ha Ha Ha!
Eerily prescient. I get chills listening to this, and realising it was written over 100 years ago.
Hits me with the pandemic feels, man.
Brilliant. I think he must have had a little time travel experience before he wrote this.
It's an absolute prophecy.
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?
Of COURSE he would! - Only connect... ;)
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.
@@lucyloo2520 The Machine Starts...
Just wait for COVID, my past dude. You'll learn to love the cell.
Thank you for this. Amazing that he imagined this is 1909.
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.
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.
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It's weird. All these people do every day is give lectures and listen to lectures.
Only 10 minutes ... i.think she just has a banging TH-cam
Aka me listening to podcast highlights and news all day
@@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.
Wow, brilliant. Very reminiscent of Howey's Silo trilogy in theme and tone yet written more than 100 years before. Prophetic work.
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
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 😂😂
Thanks for this ! :)
Did Amazon and co take Inspiration from this book or was it a user guide?
Thank you so much
55:41
Woah, these things are getting crazy!
absolutely brilliant.
43:55 (bookmark)
Yeah it’s pretty good. But does it beat listening to “YANKEE WITH NO BRIM” for 10 hours straight? Afraid not. 4/7
She had me at "Throbbing".
meatybeatybignbouncy She had me at her surname.
Thanks for sharing
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
+sadiswan even creepier to see... feel... witness
"Childhood's Perpetuation" Note the declared paucity of Ideas! Machine forbid, citizens might learn to do for themselves.
A terrifying glimpse into Ai
2 people don't like this it's one of my favorite ones.
I presume that she got pregnant with Kuno by way of artificial insemination.
Alarmingly prescient...
What coming is going to make lock down look like a walk in the park.
sounds like a premonition of facebook
The World brought to you by Amazon o.o
The Machine Stops....New HAWKWIND Album....APRIL 15th
+lancsl4d yeah, if you pre-ordered! MP3 2day, or wait til 5/6? Dang tech - I want it now!
time stamp 30:20 section two begins
HOW DID HE KNOW THIS
Spoiler alert: This is just like the big 2020 lockdown but predicted 100 years ago.
Yup. And protests now too
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.
@@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.
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.
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?
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)
WOW I really have an essay on this book right now and you make a brilliant Teacher.
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.
Ahaha... oh those silly future people... Surely nothing like this could REALLY happen....
50:13
Bob Garfield's excellent "Bully Pulpit" podcast brought me here.
*bookmark* 56:57
In a lot of ways Snowpiercer feels like it's a kind of knock-off on this.
i wonder how long before this gets cencored now that doing that is so common place?
1:06:49 checkpoint
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.
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Wow that is so great. Where can i buy this book? I need some fuel for my bondfire.
@@silasmarup-dalsten4073 Haha! Good one! :)
This makes me think of the tower of babel
31:27 bookmark
No ideas here...
wall-e
18:43 (book mark)
30:07
Time traveling is real
56:52 (book mark)
It was hard to keep listening to her son talk lol. She was all like “keep going” and I was like nooo stfu
*This is the og steampunk*
"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"
30:41 bookmark
40:34 bookmark
Praise the machine! Or, I guess, no.
SPoiler alert. She dies
This girl sounds like a robot. I couldn't take more than 30 seconds
read the pdf instead, it's worth it
@@intothevoid2571 oh I still listened to a audio book of it just not her. I can't remember but it was good.
I need a new listen if you have any suggestions though
@@ballsdeep2520 The Invisible Man is good th-cam.com/video/gg8J20AR3Bg/w-d-xo.html
also A Clockwork Orange but I read that one.
@@intothevoid2571 Hmm I love the movie so clockwork Orange is a good call.
@@ballsdeep2520 Saw the film first myself. The book's also great - a little different to the film in someways. I'd suggest reading it rather than listening if possible.
A “queer” temper.
The title implies too much. I feel like a better title would have been "The Great Machine".
all these stories are the same...as if people would be fine living like that, in one room. that is so...lacking nuance!
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.
@@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..
.. What?
Hello class 10D
Idiot
56:48