Travel is considered an onerous task and no one wants to do it: face-to-face communication is considered exhausting at best and rude and uncivilised at worst. (They also get all their sustenance through The Machine, and eventually start to worship it as a deity.)ĭoes this world seem just a little bit familiar? This superficial world is a safe one, and most people like it that way. This is not a lonely world-oh, no, for people are glued to each other through the Machine, through which they communicate with all their “friends” and discuss ideas (most of which are not that good).
Each person inhabits his or her little cell and gets sustenance from the ubiquitous “Machine”. In this dystopian universe, most of the population lives underground. In my last post, I discussed how the emphasis on texting and striving to receive as many “likes!” as possible on social media can actually make people less social.Ī novel was written about this inverse relationship…it takes place in a bleak future.
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