An Analysis of Anti-technology Themes in The Machine Stops and WALL-E E

In 1909 E.M. Forster wrote the ground-breaking short story The Machine loot, it foretold of a dystopian society where mankind en effronteryed itself to a machine which took economic aid of al their wants and needs, and ultimately lead to their demise. In Forsters The Machine bread, he illustrates the need for man to become less dependent on machines and technology for their livelihoods and life in general. In Disneys WALL-E we se more than of these themes again. In both cases humans come become so ill-chosen at taking guard of themselves that the damage of the machine or machines that care for them would be catastrophic and deadly. Humans have invested so much trust and power into these machines that they no longer have any real control, in addition their dependence on technology has severely distanced them from nature and more importantly their own human nature.In both stories one of the study themes is the autonomy of the Machine, and the lack of control the humans have all over them. In The Machine Stops this theme is best illustrated through the machinateedness Apparatus (Reader, 153), it automatically mends any problem it sees, including retrieving Kuno when he ventures to the sur construction as well as killing one of the sur brass instrument dwellers who was entangled by the worms, and, , was killed by one of them piercing her throat.. This shows the ruthless autonomy of the machine. Later in the story we see how little the people who inhabit The Machine have over it, when it begins to break down, they have so little understanding o its workings that they are powerless to fix it, without the Mending Apparatus to fix The Machine they are unable to save themselves. In Disneys WALL-E the channelise aboard which the humans are living is controll... ...oth depictions people communicate well-nigh exclusively through machines, in The Machine Stops face to face contact is rare and essentially feared. In WALL-E people are shown ta lk to each other on screens while they are right succeeding(a) to each other and they seem completely lost when it comes to face to face conversations.In conclusion, The Machine Stops and WALL-E both use anti- scientific themes to illustrate the dangers of technological advance, in particular our dependence on machines and technology for our survival. They showed that the combination of a dependence on an autonomous and out-of-control machine, a disconnection from nature, and an extreme loss of humanity can have disastrous consequences for us and our society. The question straight off is whether or not we can learn from these works and works standardised these and prevent a dark and inhuman future.