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== Literature ==
* In the end of [[The Pendragon Adventure]]'s ''The Reality Bug'', {{spoiler|the people of Veelox cannot function without the Lifelight pyramid, a [[Lotus Eater Machine|virtual fantasy program]].}}
* E.M. Forster's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140515194710/http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html ''The Machine Stops'']: humans in the future depend entirely on The Machine, and never leave their rooms anymore. Written in ''[[Older Than They Think|1909]]''.
* In several of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s stories, future humanity is fully controlled by Multivac/AC; however, "The Life and Times of Multivac" is the only one in which the dependent society becomes obliged to do without.
** In another story of his, there's a subversion: An overwhelmingly large percentage of the population are incapable of doing simple math problems. When someone rediscovers how to do it by hand, a country uses it to get rid of computers in planes to make faster, lighter aircraft because they can perform the math by hand, giving them an edge on whatever country they're warring against.
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