The Machine Stops -E.M. Forster
(archive.org)
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it's a great story, very prescient
Forster wrote it as a counter to the techno-utopian-eugenics popular at the time, in particular H.G. Wells who went on to form The Progressive League
That's really interesting, thanks for the info. I side with Forster, seems like a cool guy. Found this at the end of that article, prescient indeed: "The ideas generated in the early years of the League’s activities lived on as individuals and committees splintered away, including through the Marriage Law Reform Society and, in its position on legalised abortion and voluntary euthanasia, the British Humanist Association (now Humanists UK)."