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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I recall reading quite a few of those, but don't recall any specific building ones, esp not which much themes of 'people stop interacting with the outside world'.

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[+] grumpybozo@toad.social 8 points 2 years ago

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 2 years ago

The granddaddy of those would be E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, from 1909

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago

The Caves of Steel was basically named for it, with a major plot point revolving around the fact that everyone is too agoraphobic to have committed the murder because of generations spent living in giant domed cities kept isolated from the natural world.

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