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BBC Radio 4 - The Machine Stops by E M Forster

 
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BBC Radio 4 - The Machine Stops by E M Forster
BBC Radio 4 - The Machine Stops, by E M Forster, dramatised by Gregory Normington
 The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a ‘cell’, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as ‘unmechanical’ and are threatened with “Homelessness”. Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end.

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Files description :
Audio file format: mp3  
Bit rate: 192 kbps
Size: 63.6 Mb
Running time: about 44 mins
The file is in rar archive with 5% recovery.


see the machine stops's text but unfortunately it's not identical to the radioshow script
http://emforster.de/hypertext/template.php3?t=tms


some similar posts on englishtips:
see the audiobook "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence" 
which has been posted by  aline
http://englishtips.org/index.php?newsid=1150790794
see the audiobook "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow" which has been posted by  aline
http://englishtips.org/index.php?newsid=1150790745


P.S. Additionaly I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our member poLUnoCHniK for his help in creating this post.


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