![]() ![]() ![]() This project was inspired by the name of the “wireless” device imagined in Forster’s story, a sort of “portal” described as a “blue plate”.įor Forster’s future to be realized, a century of evolution in artificial life, computer-generated human bodies, and the advent of the personal computer would be required. ![]() The story’s characters were animated by reconstructing and reanimating early three-dimensional models of the computer-generated human body.įorster published The Machine Stops, predicting a future where all humans live in quarantine from one another. The story of The Machine Stops was displayed spatially by using a variety of historical computing hardware, each representing a milestone in the advancement of “personal computing” into its status as a fixture in everyday life. ![]() The story is considered prescient for its prediction of telecommunications and digital technology. An adaptation of a short story from 1909, The Machine Stops by E.M. The immersive exhibit The Blue Plate (The Machine Stops) is a spatial narrative, connecting three otherwise disparate landmark moments in the history of modern computing media. ![]()
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