"We are here": cocktailpeanut posts Forster's The Machine Stops
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-10-22
cocktailpeanut (NomadML) posts "We are here" alongside the Penguin Classics cover of E. M. Forster's 1909 sci-fi classic The Machine Stops — the tale of humanity's total dependence on a collapsing machine — as a wry comment on today's AI dependence.
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