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There's so much dystopian science fiction about people being completely helpless because only machines know how to do everything. Then the machines break down.
by area51org 2y ago
There's so much dystopian science fiction about people being completely helpless because only machines know how to do everything. Then the machines break down.
- bayindirh 2y agoPump Six (by Paolo Bacigalupi) comes into my mind.
- JadeNB 2y agoI think that the classic of the genre is "The feeling of power" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power).
- l33t7332273 2y ago“The Feeling of Power” is excellent and should be mandatory reading in English classes from here on out.
- svieira 2y agoThe Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is another very good one: https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/... And re-skimming it just now I noticed the following eerie line: > There was the button that produced literature. Wild that this was written in 1903.
- turbojet1321 2y agoIt's such an amazing short story. Every time I read it I'm blown away by how much it still seems perfectly applicable.