The Machine Stops – appendix
- Industrialism if not controlled results in alienation and robots.
- Really professional people will be less in number, computer ruled, nothing to do with reality / 10th hand info / Ideas that have nothing to do with reality.
- The future will have nothing to do with human beings – we’re just going to be ciphers in the machine.
- Importance of reading – experiencing it – Nowadays you don’t have to experience anything – A book is the most concentrated form of experience you can have.
- If we had fair distribution of wealth we would have lots of leisure, we might all be intellectuals.
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