In the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.

This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.

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