[area51org]

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.

[svieira]

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

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]

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]

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

[bayindirh]

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

[JadeNB]

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