[gnosis]

Another prescient scifi story is E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops", written in 1909.[1][2]

[1] - http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

[vert2]

Yes. This is an amazing and hair-raising short story, written over a century ago and one that predicted the advent of digital lives so eerily.

[kepano]

This.