The_Machine_Stops was first published in 1909. Technology has taken over how people live. The people no longer remember that it was humans that built the tech which led up to the global controlling machine.
https://jimmiekepler.com/2015/02/13/short-story-the-machine-stops-by-e-m-forster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#Plot_summary
- "Both George Lucas's film THX 1138 (1971) and the original novel version of Logan's Run (1967) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson bear multiple similarities to "The Machine Stops". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#Related_works
What if EM creates such an integrated AI run civilization and it suddenly stops or seriously malfunctions?