Date: 2019-07-19 11:25 am (UTC)
coth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] coth
The Machine Stops was in a collection of short stories we read for GCSE 'O' level. Well worth reading.

Date: 2019-07-19 11:27 am (UTC)
rmc28: Rachel in hockey gear on the frozen fen at Upware, near Cambridge (Default)
From: [personal profile] rmc28
... if I still used Instagram I could kind of see the point.

Date: 2019-07-19 12:19 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
'The Machine Stops' was something I read in my late teens.

It's remarkably prescient.

Date: 2019-07-19 01:45 pm (UTC)
nancylebov: (green leaves)
From: [personal profile] nancylebov
It's not just that it was prescient, it's that the use of a communications network for chatter was completely plausible but forgotten for decades-- possibly until it happened in the real world.

Date: 2019-07-19 02:48 pm (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
And what happens when it stops in the real world, I wonder?

I'm old enough to remember how we coped before all this stuff, but........

Date: 2019-07-19 03:01 pm (UTC)
nancylebov: (green leaves)
From: [personal profile] nancylebov
A lot of people will be fighting very hard to keep the net going. They may succeed.

Date: 2019-07-19 02:29 pm (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
“The Machine Stops” is a favorite of mine for SO many reasons.

Date: 2019-07-19 04:11 pm (UTC)
chickenfeet: (Default)
From: [personal profile] chickenfeet
UoT Opera's student composer collective did an opera version of The Machine Stops to a libretto by Michael patrick Albano in 2016. https://operaramblings.blog/2016/01/25/the-machine-stops/

Opinions about Instagram solicited:

Date: 2019-07-19 05:43 pm (UTC)
agoodwinsmith: (Default)
From: [personal profile] agoodwinsmith
For people who like Instagram, please tell me what features make it a plus for you.

(Context: the last new-to-me social media thing I joined was Twitter - and I fell off because it was just one too many things to keep track of. And it mostly seemed to be me whispering into the void while being deafened by prolific perpetual posters. Instagram just seemed to be another chance to be ignored and ad-slathered.)

Date: 2019-07-20 01:53 pm (UTC)
nancylebov: (green leaves)
From: [personal profile] nancylebov
I liked the answer to the three authors question a lot, and I was surprised at how many people hated it.

Date: 2019-07-21 01:21 pm (UTC)
nancylebov: (green leaves)
From: [personal profile] nancylebov
It seemed like well over half, mostly about hating the author. Maybe I should take another look.

Date: 2019-07-21 02:02 pm (UTC)
nancylebov: (green leaves)
From: [personal profile] nancylebov
I did the whole thing. This was like poppy seeds in front of a vampire.

47 anti, 44 pro, 70 not obvious (some of these may have been cultural references I didn't get)

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