With the future comes questions; questions that a followed by ideas and assumptions of what will be. EM Forester shares his vision of the future with us in has short story, “The Machine Stops.” He sees the world as a place where people live in “cells” captured by this machine living below the earth’s surface, unable to have face to face communication. Only people who allowed to go above the surface can. This reminds me of the movie “The Island.” It’s about how people pay for a jelly like structure that has clones of their organs so if they get sick, they have a replacement. Little to their knowledge the company is making real human clones in an old military bunker below grown. The clones are told that the outside world has been contaminated and they are survivors. Each day they have a lottery where they can go to “the island” but really this is just people needing the clones body parts. Two of the clones escape informing their “investors” of the situation and the investors are so concerned with their lives they don’t even care that there are real people dying for them to live longer. It’s incredible the Sci-Fi similarities between “The Machine Stops” and “The Island” and how the technology plays such a huge role in the lives of people, but in the end technology always fails.
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