> Have we reached that level of the civilisation that goes extinct, for forgetting how its own inner machines work? This thought was expressed in Isaac Asimov'

> Have we reached that level of the civilisation that goes extinct, for forgetting how its own inner machines work? This thought was expressed in Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question" [PDF]: https://physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf https://physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf > Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole. Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough. So Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share in the glory that was Multivac's I wonder whether they'll have to deal with CrashLoopBackoff errors in 2061.