This paper explores the digitized museum in E. M. Forster’s science fiction novella The Machine Stops (1909). Forster replaces the physical space of museums with a digitized platform, complete with information censorship and broadcast through the technological home of humanity, the Machine. In examining Forster’s warning of tasking a machine to manage knowledge, this paper considers the real-life technological progress of digitizing archives and how this current practice is posited as a positive regardless of its causing digital amnesia. By analyzing how early science fiction exposes subjective biases in traditional museum practice, paired with the airbrushing of knowledge through digitized museum platforms, this paper posits that the museum in science fiction challenges views of how knowledge comes to be narrativized and disseminated, with a focus on the digitized museum as a failed memory institution plagued by subjectivity.

本文探讨了 EM Forster 的科幻小说《机器停止》中的数字化博物馆（1909 年）。福斯特用数字化平台取代了博物馆的物理空间，完成了信息审查，并通过人类的技术家园机器进行广播。在研究福斯特关于让机器管理知识的警告时，本文考虑了数字化档案的现实技术进步，以及这种当前的做法如何被认为是积极的，而不管它是否会导致数字健忘症。通过分析早期科幻小说如何暴露传统博物馆实践中的主观偏见，以及通过数字化博物馆平台喷绘知识，本文认为科幻小说中的博物馆挑战了关于知识如何被叙述和传播的观点，重点是数字化博物馆是一个被主观性困扰的失败的记忆机构。