'Ctrl Alt Del' by Donna M Day

The problem with giving the technology everything the humans had ever created was that eventually it developed a moral compass and deleted it all. And no one had kept physical copies – why would they have – it’s hoarding and they had therapy for that – so it was just gone.

They searched and searched and searched

but not one line of poetry, a single brushstroke, or even a simple simile was anywhere. 

Was it HG Wells or Jules Verne who prophesied humankind evolving to a state of such idleness they couldn’t create anything anymore?

Couldn’t even think.

No one knows, and now, no one ever will again.