Timeline for What's the earliest treatment of a post-apocalypse, with historical social structures, and remnant AI tech?
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| Mar 21, 2021 at 19:34 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Not sure this would count as "historical structures" but in "The Mentanicals" from the April 1934 issue of Amazing Stories, human society became totally dependent on intelligent machines and then collapsed when the machines refused to keep serving them, so that now humans have reverted to an animal-like state where they no longer even speak, surviving because some automatic food machines are still in operation, while the intelligent machines go about their business and ignore them. | |
| Jan 16, 2021 at 19:40 | vote | accept | andrewtinka | ||
| Jan 11, 2021 at 14:21 | history | protected | Rand al'Thor♦ | ||
| Jan 11, 2021 at 13:24 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 13:13 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 8:48 | answer | added | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1348238169783881729 | ||
| Jan 10, 2021 at 1:31 | answer | added | indigochild | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 0:55 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 9, 2021 at 23:32 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | Here's another one: It takes a thief by Walter Miller, Jr. 1952 (who also wrote "A Canticle for Leibowitz") (Project Gutenberg text) | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 23:28 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | There is also a short story about an intelligent machine that has people of the surface for the privilege of getting eaten by said machine (the last part is unknown to the saps of course), but I can't remember the name. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 21:29 | answer | added | Alith | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 21:03 | answer | added | DavidW | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 20:50 | answer | added | Emsley Wyatt | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 20:33 | comment | added | Spencer | One has to think of "The Return of the Archons" from Star Trek: TOS. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 20:27 | answer | added | cycad | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 20:12 | history | edited | Buzz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 20:08 | answer | added | Buzz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 19:34 | answer | added | tardigrade | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 18:30 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | There is bound to be a couple of Philip K. Dick stories in there. Autofac (1955) comes to mind. The two ideas of "survivable worldwide devastation" + "at least human-like AI" must have existed at writing time. Here is a review | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:42 | comment | added | andrewtinka | Originally I also asked "has anyone given this (possible) sub-genre a name?" Asking two questions at the same time is bad practice and so I edited it out. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:39 | history | edited | andrewtinka | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removed second question to improve focus
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| Jan 9, 2021 at 17:23 | answer | added | tardigrade | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 16:55 | history | asked | andrewtinka | CC BY-SA 4.0 |