In “The Machine Stops” by E.M.Foster, Vashti, who is completely adapted to the machine dominated world, talks to Kuno, who wishes to leave without these machines, through the use of machine. It reminded me of how I FaceTime with my mother who lives thousands of miles away from me, and I was afraid by the possible changes in the world described in the reading. It is a prediction of the future, but seeing us today, how much we rely on technology, I thought that prediction has a possibility to take place in real life soon.
Even today, we are so used to smartphones that most of us will refuse to give up using that technology. We do everything with our smartphones, we communicate with each other through internet, we play online games when we’re bored, and we even order food when we’re hungry. It is just like the buttons we press to satisfy our needs in the little room described in the reading.
Seeing the similarities between the reading and real life today concerns me that the percentage of our future becoming like the reading is much more higher today than when it was written. I can’t imagine the world where we won’t talk face to face, where we only communicate through the use of machine, and where we can’t do anything without the help of machines.