The Machine Stops

In the story I'm reading for part three the world has gone to an underground utopia where everything in controlled by "the machine". So far the story is very interesting but one thing in particular made me think. A lecturer in the society tells his listeners to not listen to what he has to say about a subject but what someone else thought about someone else thought about someone else thought about what some one said about the original subject. I'm sure that got a little confusing but it's a lot like what we do in the second part of our research projects. We are writing about what someone wrote about about the original subject. The lecturer believes that each generation after us will be better off because they know what we think about what someone else thinks. "And in time there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free From taint of personality, which will see the [subject] not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine." I'm not sure what to think about this idea. I don't think I like it.