„The Maschine Stops“ is a short story that influenced and defined a whole genre. I was made aware of this story by Jaron Lanier. It’s a great read and if you don’t have the nerve to read online listen to the audio dramatisation below that was produced in 2001 by the BBC or the full audiobook read by Jerome Lawsen.
Listen to the audio dramatisation (BBC, 2001)
Or listen to the full text (read by Jerome Lawsen)
Read the short story from by E.M. Forster (1909)
http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. He also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Many of his novels examine class differences and hypocrisy. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work.
Considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 22 separate years. He declined a knighthood in 1949, was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953, and in 1961 he was one of the first five authors named as a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.
After attending Tonbridge School, Forster studied history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he met fellow future writers such as Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. He then travelled throughout Europe before publishing his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905. His final novel, Maurice, a tale of homosexual...
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Boris Brejcha
Boris Brejcha (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbrɛjxaː]; born November 26, 1981, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German DJ and record producer. He describes his music style as "high-tech minimal." His style has been compared with DJ Umek, and Solomun.
Brejcha frequently wears a joker mask based on a Carnival of Venice design. He has performed at clubs and festivals around the world, including Tomorrowland and Coachella. Boris founded the label Fckng Serious in 2015 with Ann Clue and Deniz Bul. He performed for the first time in Ibiza in August 2019, at Hï Ibiza club.
On 24 January 2020, Brejcha released his sixth album Space Diver as his first album for Ultra Records.
In 2021, Brejcha had the 42nd position on DJ Mags Top 100 DJs.
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