Talk:The Machine Stops

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It seems amazing how similar this story is to Wikipedia. The main character's mother spends her time working on some obscure scholarship, presenting her findings via some synchronized worldwide information system. Isn't this exactly what happens here everyday!

--Erik Garrison 06:58, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Comic on Mad

One of the earliest issues of Mad magazine has a story of exactly this type of dystopian future. Should it be added to the entry?

If you are sure that the Mad story is based on the Forster story, then yes (perhaps under a heading of Derivative works). If not, then put the Mad story in List of dystopian literature. HTH. --Heron 17:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking apperatus = instant messenger

I've added a bit about the speaking apperatus, which is significant as it predicts a form of video conferencing 80 years before it invention. and is one of the few sci fi novels to ever predict anything like the internet. I think the speaking apperatus concept needs expanding on more tho. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.30.174 (talk) 14:21, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

THX-1138

I've always thought that THX-1138 was partly based on The Machine Stops; I popped by just out of curiosity and see it's not in the article; I don't know how to cite that, it was ina review read long-long ago when THX-1138 was first out....Skookum1 (talk) 04:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contentious Edits

There was an edit in June 2009 which changed the text from saying that the internet came 70 years after TMS was written, not 60. I have not changed this but I believe that it was written in 1903, but not published till 1909. I cannot however find the source of the test which I downloaded which says that. If anyone can help it would be worth inserting, if only to make the story more remarkable in terms of vision. Care in that when something is written it is not the same as something being published. It may have been written and completed many years earlier. Bvrly (talk) 18:19, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]