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Old 06-13-2023, 09:23 AM   #8
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So I have a hard time believing these will become mainstream. Perhaps those who no longer can read cursive writing, nor read a clock with hands, nor pull themselves off their couch and out of a gaming world to actually go outside and meet REAL people, maybe those people will buy them. They live in cyberspace already. The rest of us? Not so much...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
I think on Gutenberg
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