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^ The Machine Stops is really shockingly good at its predictions. When reading, remember that moving pictures were brand new, and color photography had just become a thing you could do outside a lab / highly specialized setups. Radio communication had just started to be used by governments. While it's describing the life of a fully-online Influencerâ„¢.


And I don't expect its predictions to suddenly falter, either.




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