‘Fantasies always tell the future,’ said Jonathan Bowden. And although E. M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ (1909) isn’t as famous as 1984 or Brave New World, it’s more prophetic than both combined. Before the invention of the internet, it predicted the emergence of an emasculating technocracy. In the world of the story, strength is spurned. Fathers are …
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