In 1966, "The Machine Stops" made its appearance on the small screen as an episode of the BBC drama Out of the Unknown, starring Yvonne Mitchell as Vashti and Michael Gothard as Kuno.

In 2004 playwright Eric Coble adapted "The Machine Stops" for the stage, and the dramatization made its premiere on WCPN 90.3 in presentation sponsored by Ideastream and Hiram College on November 16 of this year. Although the program does not follow the text exactly, it is nonetheless very well done.

Listen to the broadcast here.

Level 42, a UK -based band that formed in the early 1980s, made a tribute to "The Machine Stops" with the 1983 release of their song by the same name.

Listen to the song here.