And so with themouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with thedefective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. all were bitterlycomplained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten. Things wentfrom bad to worse unchallenged.
people adapt to the point of complacency - changes are made or things go wrong but they eventually just learn to accept them (when websites or services make bad updates)
At midday she took a second glance at the earth. The air- ship was crossinganother range of mountains, but she could see little, owing to clouds.Masses of black rock hovered below her, and merged indistinctly into grey.Their shapes were fantastic; one of them resembled a prostrate man."No ideas here," murmured Vashti, and hid the Caucasus behind a metalblind.
"Ideas" have a different meaning in this world - inspiration does not come from where you would expect it to
the civilization that had mistakenthe functions of the system, and had used it for bringing people to things,instead of for bringing things to people. Those funny old days, when menwent for change of air instead of changing the air in their rooms!
Today with the internet and new technologies we can bring the world to us. Social media, entertainment, online shopping etc.
Homelessness means death.
In this story homelessness has a different meaning and denotation (but possibly derived from our own world's connotations of homelessness)
Men made it, do notforget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but it is noteverything.
The relationship with humans and machines - humans created them yet they now have come to worship them. The machine should not become greater than those who created it.