Who can blame the students? Everything they meet with in the world around them gives the signal: That was then, and electronic communications are now.
It's funny that even today, with all the technology that has improved education, students are still not able to focus. Even worse, we get distracted at very inconvenient times.
Shepliedhersecretcomb.Andsureenoughshecursedtheyear,thefamily,thevillage,andherself.
different realities are frowned upon
seasnails
but sea snails don't have shells
Information, in short, is a strikingly bland substance."
Information has to be factual; opinions are interesting but information is strictly based on facts. Unfortunately people mix the two up.
but also notions like "reputation
Each media outlet has to have it's own image, and within that, their information will be judged
scraps of the untainted sky
Note untainted; it was livable. Does this mean they were really controlled by the machine?
"Never," said Kuno, "never. Humanity has learnt its lesson."
But where is humanity if the machine stops?
"Quicker," he gasped, "I am dying - but we touch, we talk, not through the Machine."
I thought touching was disgusting? But in times of crisis, the rule is adverted.
"The Machine stops."
There is no infinity, there always must be the end. It is a law in our universe.
But for the most part panic reigned, and men spent their strength praying to their Books, tangible proofs of the Machine"s omnipotence.
Technology=God?
She whirled around, praying to be saved from this, at any rate, kissing the Book, pressing button after button.
So it is a religion!
Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven.
Is the author trying to lay out the demise of man through technology or is the author trying to detail how fragile we are?
"I have been threatened with Homelessness," said Kuno.
Honestly? I still don't understand why he couldn't have just told her through the machine.
A tube oozed towards her serpent fashion
A certain inevitable death. It's almost like the snake from the story of Adam and Eve; these tubes were trusted and now they seem sinister.
We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now.
Recently an AI was noted saying that it would keep a "human zoo"... I don't know about you but these two lines are freaking me out.
THE MACHINE STOPS
Machine
Immediately an enormous apparatus fell on to her out of the ceiling, a thermometer was automatically laid upon her heart. She lay powerless. Cool pads soothed her forehead. Kuno had telegraphed to her doctor.
In reference to the apparatus, here's the DaVinci Robotic Surgery Machine
lump of flesh-a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus
Is this Forster saying that we'll all become obese indoor dwellers?
this room is throbbing with melodious sounds
like those speakers that can be built into walls
two days to fly between me and you
As opposed to the months via ship, could be confusing for a modern person since traveling across the world takes only 17 hours without connections.