Bit Rot

Humanity isolates in pods underground for their own safety following an ecological disaster.

Only, it’s not uncomfortable. Humans have everything they could possibly need or want, thanks to the machine that oversees everything.

But when we give the power to watch over us to computers, who watches the computers?

Adapted by the Weisers from
“The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster

 
 

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Content disclaimer:
A character struggles with loneliness and depression. She tries numerous times to have the machine painlessly euthanize her, but it refuses.