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"A future that plans on everything going right so no one has to think about what happens when things go wrong. Because computers don’t make mistakes. An automated future where no one actually knows how things work."

Sounds like a good plot line for a movie...

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This is already a big theme in Brazil. When you have an air conditioning malfunction, there's no one to fix it. An underground system of guerilla technicians develops, outside the bounds of the law, because they're not supposed to exist.

When I read the first sentence, I thought of the country. For those not familiar with the Terry Gilliam science fiction film from the, it’s worth clarifying that Brazil is the name of a film: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

It's also my favorite episode of The Outer Limits reboot...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667957/

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