X Minus One - NIGHTMARE - Stephen Vincent Benet - Classic Radio Drama 1955

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Vincent Benet delivers a prophetic vision of machines gaining consciousness and turning against humanity.

Based on Benet's "The Revolt of the Machines," this episode predicted networked computers communicating through telephone lines decades before the internet existed. Written before anyone coined the term "artificial intelligence," yet startlingly relevant today.

🎙️ X Minus One was NBC's legendary science fiction radio series, broadcast from 1955-1958.

📻 This episode originally aired July 21, 1955

✍️ ORIGINAL STORY: Stephen Vincent Benet
🏆 Benet won Pulitzer Prizes for John Brown's Body and "Western Star"

Benet understood that the best science fiction is really about the human condition - our hopes, our fears, and our complicated relationship with progress.

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