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Matthew Battles, writing on the Britannica Blog, compares the new movie WALL-E to E.M Forster’s tale “The Machine Stops” saying,
In both stories . . . humanity has grown fat and sessile thanks to automated systems that serve their every need. Whisked from screen to screen in automated chairs, they’re unable to interact with the world without electronic mediation. And in both stories, the systems break down.
Sessile? I admit I had to look that one up. In biology, it refers to, say an organism, that is fixed in one place, immobile. For us internet junkies we may want to think about this a little more and spend a bit more time off the grid and go direct to the experience — whatever that may be.
Just a thought.
