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Going to leave this here: https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.html https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.ht... "The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. " E.M. Forster wrote this in 1909