Short Story: The Machine Stops

In the story “The Machine Stops” there were many fantastic happenings that in the time it was written in 1906 people never gave it any merit of it possibly happening. Although, it is a story of fiction written in the past it seems to foreshadow what is very possibly an outcome for the United States of today. For example, in the story everyone has become distant and although they have the means to travel and have a face to face encounter with other people they would rather sit in the rooms with little more than a blurred image of their loved one to talk to. Because of this lack of will power the people show in “The Machine Stops” is a blurred reflection of the people of the United States this is how I fear the society of the United States will
Communication devices in the story are the soul contact people have while in their rooms and are how they listen and talk with all their loved ones. An Example of this is when the main character would rather talk to her son over the blurred device rather than go and see him in person. Although people of the early 1900’s never saw this as a possibility that the American population will revert to the same form of communication through devices rather than seeing the person face to face it is happening today. An Example of this would be in the daily life of a citizen rather than come to a person’s house and talk to them it is easier to simply call or text them the happenings of their day. Calling and text are useful tools but they lack the emotion and physical kinship that is derived through talking to a living person rather than a machine, yet this is how many of The United States prefer to communicate because they are creatures that seek the easiest way to do something much like those of the
An example of this would be with the American People constant technological advances yet, refusing to work on how to make the technology they have more secured. This inability to improve their defense is leading to the constant hacking of The United States Government and their records by other countries. Both societies have a lack of will power and an overabundance of a compromising behavior with could lead them both imploding for the same fundamental