@elonmusk: Blizzard’s inability to solve the login problem on their product launch day reminds me of the classic Forster essay: Th…
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Elon Musk compares Blizzard's login problems on product launch day to the themes in E.M. Forster's essay 'The Machine Stops,' critiquing over-reliance on technology.
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Blizzard’s inability to resolve the login issues on its product launch day brings to mind E. M. Forster’s classic essay: The Machine Stops https://cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf… — Source: https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
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