The Machine Stops story
In a distant future people mostly live statically in isolated rooms with every need cared for by an enormous machine that controls nearly all aspects of society. Then the machine starts to break down.
7 total · 5 choice · 2 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI risk to civilization | choice | At the heart of the story is the gradual breakdown of an enormous machine that oversaw nearly every aspect of society. People became helpless to save themselves. |
| atrophied civilization | choice | people were bread to be physically weak and mentally complacent |
| ecological destruction | choice | the surface of the Earth was apparently all but inhabitable due to human activity |
| machine regulated society | choice | At the heart of the story is the gradual breakdown of an enormous machine that oversaw nearly every aspect of society. |
| society regulating central computer crash | choice | when the central machine failed, civilization collapsed |
| global cooling | major | Most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth because the planet was in the grips of an ice age. |
| mother and son | major | Vashti and Kuno |