There's so much dystopian science fiction about people being completely helpless...

svieira · 2024-11-13T21:35:54 1731533754

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster is another very good one:

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 · 2024-11-13T22:46:01 1731537961

It's such an amazing short story. Every time I read it I'm blown away by how much it still seems perfectly applicable.

l33t7332273 · 2024-11-13T21:09:40 1731532180

“The Feeling of Power” is excellent and should be mandatory reading in English classes from here on out.

bayindirh · 2024-11-13T20:56:47 1731531407

Pump Six (by Paolo Bacigalupi) comes into my mind.

JadeNB · 2024-11-13T22:43:45 1731537825

I think that the classic of the genre is "The feeling of power" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power).