The Machine Stops review " EM Forster predicts Facebook in eerie sci-fi drama
Theatre Royal, YorkHumans are reliant on a vast video-conferencing network in an uncanny tale featuring aerial contortions and a score by Ultravox founder John FoxxFor a writer associated with the phrase "only connect", EM Forster does not receive nearly enough credit for predicting the epoch of Facebook and Skype. Yet in a masterful short work of science fiction, published in 1909, he foresaw an overdeveloped societ…