slaves to technology theme
People start relying on technology for everything and loose their ability to cope creatively with novel problems that may arise in the future. When something does, everybody dies.
Examples
The Aldeans of tng1x17 "When The Bough Breaks" had remarkable technology, including a planetary invisibility cloak, but it was all controlled by a central computer which they no longer understood, so they became helpless when the computer broke down.
3 total · 1 choice · 1 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng1x17 | choice | The Aldeans were completely and utterly reliant on their central computer system. |
| ldr2019e2x01 | major | The story portrayed a society in which humans were entirely at the mercy of the robots that took care of them. |
| ldr2019e3x01 | minor | It was revealed that the oil rig Libertarians had grown overly reliant on their machine servants, and were ultimately overthrown by them. |