"The Machine Stops" by E M Forster is a pretty remarkable science fiction story from around the same time period that the article begins, when people were worry

"The Machine Stops" by E M Forster is a pretty remarkable science fiction story from around the same time period that the article begins, when people were worrying about over mechanization. http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html