The Machine Stops, a classic science fiction story by E. M. Forster, re-envisioned by two Iowa artists, is coming to the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts this July. Designed for a chamber ...

In 1909, Edward Morgan Forster published a story, “The Machine Stops,” which now seems astonishingly prescient. One does not normally associate E. M. Forster with science fiction: he is considered ...

Two people live in a dark technological utopia/dystopia - "the Machine". Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society ...

Puppetry, Multi-Media, and Sci-Fi Collide in Theatrical Adaptation of E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” In an imagined future where everyone lives alone in identical, underground cells, having all ...

Long before Hollywood made killer robots seem all too plausible, the British author worried that technology would undermine humanity by making life too easy. Our species will get backstabbed by ...

What happens to us if we no longer must strive and make an effort? This question is particularly relevant today, when ChatGPT can help us with, well, just about anything. It is a question explored in ...