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@Soyweiser It was a bigger theme earlier: 50s/60s. Asimov, Bradbury, and I think Heinlein all used it.
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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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@Soyweiser Not as a primary focus, but as a background fact, e.g. Trantor in Foundation.
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The granddaddy of those would be E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, from 1909
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