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 ...

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 ...

E.M. Forster’s short story “The Machine Stops” can help middle school students assess the impact of over-reliance on digital tools.