"The feeling of power", Isaac Asimov, 1958.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
The twist is that this allows the replacement of expensive computerised missiles with inexpensive manned ones ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
The twist is that this allows the replacement of expensive computerised missiles with inexpensive manned ones ...
There's no way any digital society loses record like that naturally since it's so cheap to store such information and have it last a long period of time and there's always enthusiasts that keep such things alive where sufficient advancements in technology mean people have more spare time.
Also, it's way more unbelievable that an AI so advanced wouldn't be able to design simple manned machines.
It may be cheap, but when YouTube (as one example) takes down a channel that may have thousands of hours of content, that's gone forever unless someone archived it and is willing to make it available.