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E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909) is one of the most astonishingly prophetic works of modern literature. Decades before television, the internet, social media, or Zoom, Forster imagined a civilization in which people live alone in isolated cells, communicate almost exclusively through glowing screens and come to value second hand information over direct experience. Today it is widely regarded as a foundational work of dystopian fiction and one of the most prescient critiques of digital culture ever written. Join Jason Lahman to explore why this work remains so uncannily relevant to the twenty-first century, from artificial intelligence and virtual community to digital mysticism, technological dependence, and the enduring human need for embodied experience. You will find the text here.