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Another relevant one is E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops": http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/fo
by sheeps 15y ago
Another relevant one is E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops":
http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
- jgrahamc 15y agoThank you both for these suggestions. I recall reading E. M. Forster's story at school and my contribution to English class was that he was wrong about there being a separate button for everything: in reality things would have been multiplexed and the person would have used a keypad or similar :-) I have not read Walden. Will put it on my Kindle.
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- colanderman 15y ago> I have not read Walden. Will put it on my Kindle. I recently did the same, and my fiancée won't let me live down the irony.
- Tichy 15y agoUpvoted for using a Kindle
- keithpeter 15y ago"I have not read Walden. Will put it on my Kindle" I think that sentence sort of encapsulates what you are saying in your article. It certainly pulled me up sharp.
- technomancy 15y agoThe flip side of this is that without the Kindle, it would have been "I may go pick up a copy from the public library, if I find myself visiting it soon and remember this thread when I'm there." He's a lot more likely to actually get around to reading it when it's instantly and freely available. Hurrah for the public domain.