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[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Short sci-fi story from 1909 about this concept: https://demoserver.imfast.io/Ebooks/The-Machine-Stops.pdf

[–]madcow-5 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

"Kill All Others", the 7th episode of Electric Dreams, apparently base on "The Hanging Stranger" story by Phillip K. Dick (never read it), seems the closest to our current reality of any sci fi I've seen. It matches up so well with our "democracy", open borders sentiment, otherizing anyone not in the cult, and now even the COVID19 shut-down reaction is starting to resemble it.