The Machine Stops

Author : E.M. Forster
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Stops. Illustrated written by E.M. Forster and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster, now presented in a beautifully illustrated edition, is a visionary and thought-provoking novella that explores the perils of technological dependency and the potential consequences of a society overly reliant on machines. Set in a future where humanity lives underground, isolated in individual cells, their every need attended to by an all-encompassing Machine, the story follows Vashti, a lecturer and true believer in the Machine's omnipotence. However, as the Machine begins to show signs of malfunction, Vashti's worldview is challenged, leading to a series of events that question the very foundations of her society. "The Machine Stops" remains a compelling exploration of the dangers of sacrificing human connections for the convenience of technology. This illustrated edition provides a fresh perspective on Forster's timeless work, making it an engaging and visually captivating experience for both new and returning readers.

Author : E M Forster
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Stops Illustrated written by E M Forster and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. 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. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories.[1] In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs, predicted technologies such as instant messaging and the Internet.

Author : Max Holland
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Machine Stopped written by Max Holland and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Strevens
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631491385
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science written by Michael Strevens and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.

Author : Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace c1928.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Moment written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace c1928.. This book was released on 1928 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories written between about 1903 and 1914. Many of these stories deal with science fiction or supernatural themes.

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Collector's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781907360718
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Stops and Other Stories written by E. M. Forster and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of a dystopian future - the machine has taken over the lives of men and it has an uncomfortable resonance when so much human activity depends on computers.

Author : Deborah G. Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262303388
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Society written by Deborah G. Johnson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.

Author : E.M. Forster
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681952149
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories written by E.M. Forster and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of Fables and Short Fantasy Stories “Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!” - E.M. Forster, The Other Side of the Hedge In the Celestial Omnibus, a young boy discovers a strange trail so he decides to wake up early and investigate. When the sun rises, he sees a carriage that picks him up taking him to Paradise. There he has wonderful experiences but will Mr. Bons experience the same? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681460270
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Stops written by E. M. Forster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own.

Author : E. M. Foster
Publisher : Atlântico Press
ISBN 13 : 9899040789
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Machine Stops written by E. M. Foster and published by Atlântico Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story signed by Edward Morgan Forster (A Passage to India) that describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', a standard room below ground, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. The story, written in 1909, has proved to be far ahead of its time, with remarkably accurate predictions of modern technologies and their over-dependence on them. As well as Forster's predicting globalisation, the internet, video conferencing, and other aspects of 21st-Century reality, ex-BBC's arts editor, Will Gompertz writing on the BBC website on 30 May 2020 and said: "The Machine Stops is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breath-takingly accurate literary description of lockdown life in 2020." English novelist and essayist, Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was also known for his ironic novels examining class difference in early 20th-century British society. A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success and he was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. The Machine Stops ebook was developed by Atlântico Press, a publisher company present in the global editorial market, since 1992.