Joy Ride

"Joy Ride" by Mark Meadows is a science fiction story set in a future where machines control everything, but this reliance breaks apart when the machines start to fail during the Calamity. People like traffic officers and company workers describe the crazy things they saw when the automated systems went wrong, causing a society based on strict rules to fall apart. A physicist, who saw this coming but was ignored, ends up finding freedom in the chaos as the malfunction turns life into something exciting and unpredictable. This change leads to a big shift in who holds the power, creating a brand-new world built on the ashes of the old.