The Future Was Then

"The Machine Stops" was a short story written in 1909 by E.M. Forster, which in my opinion bears a close resemblence to a little movie from 1999 called "The Matrix". Although 90 years seperate these stories, both stories revolve around the human race being forced underground by vague circumstances and then becoming dependent on a machine and finally the humans rebelling against the machine and reclaiming the world.

It never fails to impress me when I find instances in which events seperated by many decades and in this case, almost a century, bear such striking similarities. I have always been a firm believer that history repeats itself.