ABSTRACT
As the COVID-19 crisis struck right when were concluding our investigations, in this short postscript we contextualize the discoveries that we have made with the irruption of the pandemic and the sudden plunge into the virtual that it has occasioned. Considering E.M. Forster’s story The Machine Stops, written in the midst of the 1918 plague of the Spanish Flu, we reflect on the consequences of our virtual confinement in the light of what we have said about the vicissitudes of human virtuality and our digital lives.
