Stage | The Guardian: It's a truism that the internet has changed everything: how we work, how we communicate, how we consume, and even – it has been argued – how we think. In a decade, our average weekly internet usage has leapt from 90 minutes to 15 hours; the web has sparked revolutions, pooled knowledge, and afforded cats and tubby South Koreans alike worldwide fame.
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This topic is "almost too huge to write about". It's very hard for play writes to write about the time that we are currently in because we as a globe community we are still trying to understand what is happening to us all. At the same time the internet is one of the most interesting topics to modern people for exactly the same reason. Perhaps if we can't write about what is happening now we can look to the past and see if writers wrote about their future. E.M. Forster wrote a short story called the machine stops. It's about a world where everyone lives underground in little cells all by themselves. They interact though the machine, that is a lot like the internet. The story was way ahead of it's time like many of the best sify story's and is a great incite in to the internet of today. I think that theatre has been tiptoeing around this giant topic called the web for a few years and that it's time we talked about it for real and not in the general small way we have been doing up until now.
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