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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by fractallyte on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:31AM (#18425260)
"Into the Comet", Arthur C Clarke (1960)
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by avian on Sunday November 11, 2018 @08:28AM (#18426266)
"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov also has a similar premise. It seems that the idea of forgetting basic mathematics due to computers was quite popular in science fiction at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

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