[Hidden-tech] Remote Work

[Charles at sohorganizer.com]

Has anyone read the science fiction short story "The Machine Stops" by E. M.
Forster published in 1909, so well over 100 years ago.

The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost
the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives
in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual
needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is
unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant
messaging/video conferencing machine with which people conduct their only
activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge.



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I wonder if anyone on this list has read the Asimov novel "The Naked Sun".
It features a planet where the *human* residents rarely/never ever meet in
person. Each *human* lives / works alone on a huge "estate" populated by
thousands of robots and humans only ever meet using a super high tech / 3D
version of something like Zoom.... (Somehow, despite virtually no pysical
human interaction and with all of the robots under the 3 Laws, someone gets
murdered so they have to import a detective from Earth to solve the
crime...)