Team 6: The Machine Stops

In a year of isolation and social distancing the short story “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Foster, has an eerie familiarity. The story follows a mother and son who live in a post-apocalyptic world. Humans now inhabit a vast series of underground pods, isolated from each only communicating through technology, and where every need and want is provided by the omnipresent Machine. However, humans have become too dependent on The Machine and now the thing that sustains them is shutting down. Team 6 wer...