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by lelanthran 71 days ago
Are you talking about the one called "The Machine Stops", published like a hundred years ago?
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I think there are lots of sci-fi stories on this topic, one I can think of is "Pump Six" by Paolo Bacigalupi (https://books.google.de/books?id=HoSXDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT125&sourc...), which is from this century...
That story is incredible, with insights into what technology would mean.