Remindes me a bit of E.M. Forster's weirdly prescient 1909 short story The Machine Stops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.o

Remindes me a bit of E.M. Forster's weirdly prescient 1909 short story The Machine Stops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops "The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge."