EM Forester was portraying how technology is going to ruin everyone’s lives in the future. He portrays a world where human life can no longer breathe the oxygen air, so they live in their own little “cell” where anything they desire is readily available. People are trained to only desire certain things and to enjoy only the act of sharing ideas with other people, because they are given all the basic needs and they have been living that way for quite some time that they’ve become accustomed to it. Forester is responding to the issue that humans rely on technology so much, that the more it grows and develops, the less reliant humans will be. The Machine makes life easy, but it destroyed face to face interaction, the desire to travel, and people are only allowed to share ideas and nothing else. The TV show called Futurama, shows the future as being all high tech, and that humans live with aliens, robots, monster, etc. and can do practically anything they want to. The show portrays a good future, one where people live happily, get along with any creature, and still will have jobs just the learning the always be up to date.
The similarity between EM Forester’s “The Machine Stops” and Futurama is both show the future as being so high tech, that people can get whatever they want, and both r able to visit outside the realm they r in. People in the Machine are allowed to visit the surface of the Earth with a special permit and a breathing apparatus, and people/creatures in Futurama are allowed to visit Space or virtually any planet. The difference between the two is that Furturama shows how the future is a happy place, where people are happy about all the new forms of technology. “The Machine Stops” has a sad ending, where the machine breaks down and kills every person living in the machine.
