Musk invokes Forster's The Machine Stops after Blizzard's launch-day login outage
elonmusk · x · 2026-09-16
Elon Musk cited E.M. Forster's 1909 classic 'The Machine Stops' while commenting on Blizzard's prolonged login failures on a major product launch day — a jab at society's overreliance on technical systems that collapse when the people who understand them are absent.
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