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Autofac
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Autofac is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It can be read in its entirety here. A television adaptation, also titled "Autofac", aired as part of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war that destroyed civilization, humanity is entirely dependent on the autofacs, entirely automated robot factories created before Armageddon and intended to keep humanity supplied with everything from milk to microscopes until mankind is able to provide for itself again. This worked altogether too well: the autofacs have rendered humanity entirely dependent upon their supplies, and their relentless extraction of raw resources means that nobody else is able to gather the means to produce anything on their own. The system can't be shut down or human control resumed, because the methods to do so have been lost in the war. Humanity is surviving, that is true, but in a gilded cage — it's provided for and fed, but has no control over its own life and means.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The issue is that the autofacs are programmed to continue operations until independent production equals or exceeds their own. As humanity currently has no ability to produce anything on its own and the autofacs are continuously expanding their own operations, it seems very unlikely that this condition will ever be met. It's a vicious circle.An opportunity to change this comes up when a group of humans realizes that the autofacs are, themselves, running dangerously low on materials due to their rampant overextraction. Having identified a specific material two factories with overlapping ranges are both out of, they decide to goad them into conflict over resources in order to get the autofacs to destroy each other and leave humanity master of its own fate again. It's a brilliant plan. What could possibly go wrong?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Gone Horribly Right: The autofacs are wonders of technology created to keep humanity alive in case of disaster. They fulfil their purpose extraordinarily well — they produce everything humanity could possibly need, and have countless contingency measures programmed into them to ensure they will always have the resources they need to do this and that they will only stop functioning when they won't be needed anymore. They work so well, in fact, that humanity has no chance to get to resources before the autofacs do and is entirely dependent on them for survival, leaving civilization dead in the water after the war's dust settles.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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After the End: The story is set after a five-year nuclear war destroyed human civilization, leaving cities as fields of ruins, the environment devastated, the landscape an alternating field of badlands, overgrown tangles of vegetation and craters filled with irradiated water, and humanity's industrial base entirely nonexistent. | |
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