The machine runs on: "The Machine Stops" by yearend in 2021, we hope?

If you've never read E. M. Forster's classic The Machine Stops, written when the telephone was cutting edge tech, 2021 is the year you should.

See this link:

The Machine Stops


Let us not forget that social distancing is not social. Quarantine and related distancing is a necessary evil, and necessary evils are still, well, evil.

The dysfunctions promoted by our isolation under fear of the coronavirus should not be permitted to outlast the need for isolation. There are far better solutions incoming, such as immunization.

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