I first encountered this a few months ago and have been haunted by it since
@alilnightmusing.bsky.socialWhile you’re waiting on this, please read “The Machine Stops”
The most damned prescient thing I have ever read, written in 1909 or earlier.
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The Machine Stops
Read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster — full text free online. Humanity lives underground, dependent on a vast Machine — a prophetic 1909 dystopia that foresaw the internet age.