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Eventually, but it could live on for a long time. Reminds me of a story in the Dying Earth series, can't quite remember which one. Cugel visits a city where no
by mozey 6y ago
Eventually, but it could live on for a long time. Reminds me of a story in the Dying Earth series, can't quite remember which one. Cugel visits a city where no one knows how the technology works anymore. Some of it still works, other stuff is breaking down, and the populace thinks that's because the magic is fading away. Or maybe I'm confusing different stories. Anyway, something along this line probably.
- tleb_ 6y agoHaving systems working without maintenance would be a true breakthrough.
- thesuitonym 6y agoMost machines will work for a while without maintenance. See: All the cars on the road that have never had so much as an oil change.
- UncleSlacky 6y agoSimilar stories have been around for a while, (I think) starting with "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster in 1909: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops "City of Ember" is another version of this type of story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ember I'l pretty sure that there's at least one Star Trek TOS episode like this too.