THE MACHINE STOPS by E.M. Forster (1909)
Rerecommended by my niece, Ciara. Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909 Available online here: http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html and in audio here: https://librivox.org/the-machine-stops-by-e-m-forster-2/