alt Hacker NewsIs there a good science fiction story where humanity discovers it’s unalterably getting dumber? As in within a fixed number of generations tool use will cease?
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pretzellogician • today at 9:29 PM
The classic version is Kornbluth's 1951 story "The Marching Morons", itself pretty clearly the basis for Idiocracy.
(You could argue that "The Time Machine" was the original example.)
mindcrime • today at 7:25 PM
Idiocracy?
It's a major plot point in one of the books in the Bobiverse series, though it's a civilisation humanity meets instead of humanity itself (not saying anything more to avoid spoilers).