Absolutely. I helped with a physical inventory count project using smartphones as the "terminals". The barcode app we didn't allow us to selectively turn off symbologies. We ended up with a ton of links to recipes, websites, etc in the data.
That was the main theme of the book. Everything was well designed with failsafes, but too many of the design assumptions turned out to be wrong. Expecting only the expected lead to many small mistakes that were harmless individually but together snowball into a disaster.
(Well, not obviously dystopian, more ‘oh shit, that is how we’d be fucked isn’t it). Alien and Aliens also had a similar feel in their writing, except in real life there is rarely a Ripley there when you need one.