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Interestingly, Forester's story resonates strongly with contemporary culture. The narrator draws comparisons between "The Machine Stops" and Pixar's "WALL-E", suggesting that Pixar—and perhaps even Disney—stole the core concept from this early 20th-century tale. In "WALL-E," humans live sedentary lives aboard a spaceship, completely detached from Earth and their own bodies, which echoes Forester's depiction of a humanity entirely dependent on machines.