Thanx for not referencing The Matrix.
IIRC it was backstory in E. M. Forester's 1909 short story
The_Machine_Stops.
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As well as Forster predicting globalisation, the Internet, video conferencing and other aspects of 21st-century reality, Will Gompertz, writing on the BBC website on 30 May 2020, observed, "'The Machine Stops' is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breathtakingly accurate literary description of lockdown life in 2020."[3]
In 2021, Wired magazine's Randy Alfred wrote, "__1909: __ E.M. Forster publishes 'The Machine Stops,' a chilling tale of a futuristic information-oriented society that grinds to a bloody halt, literally. Some aspects of the story no longer seem so distant in the future." Alfred went on to note that a lecturer in the story provides, "a chilling premonition of the George W. Bush administration's derogation of 'the reality-based community'".[4]
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I've been waiting 2 decades for replacement teeth grown in a vat. Now I [would consider] an mRNA shot to grow a whole new set of teeth.