Novelette
Master of the Brain
- by Laurence Manning
- Wonder Stories,[/em] April 1933
After a second long sleep, Norman Winters wakes around AD 10,000. The world is dominated by the Brain, an inexorable super computer that knows all, sees all, and feels nothing. Thanks to its cradle-to-grave supervision, human life is easy and comfortable, but what will happen when the Brain realizes people are superfluous? —based on Wikipedia
Certainly. . . . the Great Brain is infallible. Who would want to act contrary to reason?