Compare and contrast the impact of technology on the human bodies of the future

Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The novel's characters for the most part are not mentioned by name. Among the listeners the stories of travelers - a psychologist, a very young man, Provincial Mayor, Doctor, and others. They are present when returning traveler from the future, which appears before your guests are not in the best shape: limping, his clothes stained with the car is bent. Yes and no wonder - the last three hours he spent eight days. And they were full of adventure.

For this we need to acquire a suitable instrument. Where can I get it? Maybe in a deserted museum is something there? It is not easy. For so many thousands of artifacts have turned to dust and finally manage to find some rusty lever, but on the way to endure battle with Morlocks. In the darkness, they become dangerous. In this battle traveler loses the only human being to whom he had become attached. With its very small when he saved Weena, which sank in the complete indifference of others. Now she is forever gone, stolen Morlocks.

However, going to the museum was in a certain sense of the word in vain. When a traveler, carrying his mace, drew near to the White Sphinx, he discovered that the bronze doors of the pedestal are open and both halves pushed into special slots. In the depths is a time machine, which Morlocks could not use yet because travelers prudent at the outset loosen the lever. Of course, in any case it was a trap; and no barrier could prevent the traveler to move in time. He sits in a saddle, and secures arms disappear from this world full of dangers. (H.G. Wells P.25-29)

However, before he faces new trials. When the machine is the first time braked, turned over on its side, the saddle moved and Traveler turned the levers in the wrong direction. Instead of returning home, he raced in the more distant future in which true forecasts about changes in the solar system, the slow fading of all forms of life on Earth and the complete disappearance of mankind. At some point the Earth inhabited by only the Crab monsters and even some huge butterflies. But then they disappear.

It goes without saying that the stories of travelers believe with difficulty. And he decides, taking a camera, once "a run" for millennia. But this new attempt ends in disaster. It foreshadows the sound of breaking glass. Traveler does not return. But the novel ends with the phrase, full enlightenment: "Even at a time when the force disappears and the human mind, gratitude and affection continue to live in our hearts."

Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome by Alexander Kluge

Fiction writer, internationally known filmmaker, critical theorist, Alexander Kluge is perhaps postwar Germany's most prolific and diverse intellectual. With this translation of Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome, a novella first published in German in 1973, one ...