Vasthi's room E.M Forster- The Machine Stops

Room of the future! This room is filled with incredible or rather scary technology. This room is the same as all the rooms today in our present time. In summers the sun shining bright through the windows. In winters the same windows are closed but still the cold breeze find its way in. Vashti's room also consists of all these but the source is not the sun or the air outside. It's something else. This …

…she can isolate her self from the whole world by pressing just the single 'isolation knob'. The bed can also be summoned by pressing a button. Although this room may be very fun to live in but after all everything is very artificial which makes this room in no sense better than today's rooms. Adding to the conclusion, technology can give us comfort to a certain point and after that it can take over us.