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We’ve become a distracted and hyper-seated civilization, but the hard-wired brain intensifies in awareness when we move around physically in nature

The more technology we surround ourselves with, the more powerless we are when our energy supply stops working

<strong>Editorial:</strong> Literature can be surprisingly accurate in predicting what lies ahead

For all its constant sharing of information, we learn more about ourselves in the silence that descends when social media falls over

Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson have signed to star in Apple’s upcoming post-apocalyptic Science Fiction series Wool.

eXtensions - Monday 10 May 2021 Monday Diversion: Notes on iPad Pro Delays; MacBook Pro Coolness; The iPod Touch Lives By Graham K. Rogers Some iPad Pro delays extending to July. The cool M1 MacBook Pro. The machines stopped last week albeit only for a few hours. Apple surveys on the Apple Watch here and in Brazil. Colors for the future MacBook Pro. The Gates divorce turns in a different direction. I am even more pleased about having choosen the 11" iPad Pro over the 12.9" version as there ar...

The Theater Lab adapts sci-fi tale for virtual shows The Theater Lab virtually presents "The Machine Stops" Friday and Saturday, May 14 and 15. For tickets, visit ww.ce.d214.org/theater-lab. Courtesy of John Meyers     Updated 5/11/2021 11:42 AM The Theater Lab, a District 214 Community Education program, will hold virtual performances of its adaptation of E.M. Forsters "The Machine Stops." Shows will be Friday and Saturday, May 14-15 via Zoom. For tickets, visit www.ce.d214.org...

When the Earth is gone, at least the internet will still be working The future of technology and disaster response Part 3: Connectivity The internet is now our nervous system. We are constantly streaming and buying and watching and liking, our brains locked into the global information matrix as one universal and coruscating emanation of thought and emotion. What happens when the machine stops though? It’s a question that E.M. Forster was intensely focused on more than a century ago in a short...

JULIET Forster has cut it as a director of Romeo And Juliet many times. Now she has sliced Shakespeares "two the two hours traffic of our stage" to 45 minutes, maybe 50, for CBeebies show tomorrow morning. "I did joke about that at rehearsals because my previous production, at Blenheim Palace, ran to three hours and 15 minutes," says Juliet, York Theatre Royals creative director. She had been lined up for the childrens television production as long ago as December 2019. "Anna Perowne, ...

The Machine Stops: Science and Its Limits Michael Strevens “IMAGINE, IF YOU CAN, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee.” So begins a story by E. M. Forster from over a century ago, about a future that feels uncannily like our present. Called “The Machine Stops,” the story conjures a world of individual humans isolated in such rooms who pass the time by streaming lectures and videoconferencing as the titular Machine tends to their every need. It is a world in which eve...