Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "Destination Moon" (1949) - Worth Watching Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:40:45 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 16 Message-ID: <20260326084045.00006dd6@gmail.com> References: <3uGdnZtryc8c6yf0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20260325223255@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b052af66ab330d975ab0d2287569ee2"; logging-data="3077271"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mo5OjCYD6M+/GciQdFs7uDZ1X6I7Z++M=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:FqLr9zMrbsyZqW3IhabGawVhacs= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84108 On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:46:30 GMT Charlie Gibbs wrote: > E.M. Forster's 1909 novel "The Machine Stops" describes a number > of today's inventions, including communication through a tablet. More than the technological predictions, it's amazing how prescient it was about the *sociologal* consequences; not just the lapse of humanity into unthinking reliance on the Machine, the ensuing cultural atrophy, and the resulting catastrophe when it stops (spoiler alert,) but the way people become ideologically, almost *religiously* attached to it and treat those who don't use it as anathema should be familiar to any- one who's had to argue with an "AI" booster in the last few years. Marvelous little story, should be required reading.