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To: the invisib1e hand

Anyone remember the name of that futuristic story where people all live in government apartments and no one goes anywhere and there muscles become all but useless?


4 posted on 02/12/2010 2:51:24 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: FromLori

Look up, “The Machine Stops”. That’s the one.


8 posted on 02/12/2010 3:03:56 PM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: FromLori

Stanislaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress?


9 posted on 02/12/2010 3:04:37 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: FromLori

Wall-E?


14 posted on 02/12/2010 3:12:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: FromLori

The Pixar movie “WAL-E” had people who went to another planet because Earth was destroyed (enviromentalist wacko alert!) and they ended up living in their lounge chairs and grew fat and lost the ability to walk.


15 posted on 02/12/2010 3:15:09 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: FromLori

I think it was called “The USSR before Reagan.”


19 posted on 02/12/2010 3:33:58 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
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