@rabbitholebot desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far.
Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine."
E.m. Forster The Machine Stops
@rabbitholebot duties of his neighbour, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole.
Those master brains had perished. They had left full directions, it is true, and their successors had each of them mastered a portion of those directions. But Humanity, in its