ედვარდ მორგან ფორსტერის "მანქანა ჩერდება": ადამიანი დისტოპიურ იზოლაციაში
“The Machine Stops” by Edward Morgan Forster: A Human in Dystopian Isolation

Summary/Abstract: “The Machine Stops” (1909), a dystopian short story by Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), gives a picture of the future when the people are not allowed to appear on the surface of the Earth and are forced to spend their lives in the isolated rooms under the ground where they are supplied with food, light and distant connection. The work, on the one hand, is parabolic: it shows the general state of people in the restrictive environment, as well as a personal desire or ability of some people to escape from it, while on the other hand, it describes the writer’s attempt to predict the future technological and political development of civilization: the story written in the early years of the twentieth century, on the one hand, foretells television, cellular phones, internet, skype, social networks, distance meetings, lectures and conferences, and on the other hand, paints the situation, in which a widely held belief that life on Earth is fatal is followed by the permanent worldwide lockdown imposed by the rulers of the planet to ensure the people’s safety as a practical consequence. The only way to save human lives is stringent isolation, which has not only limited, but also abolished all kinds of personal relationships.

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