Player Piano
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Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
5 people recommended it in 4 threads, 2020–2024.
What people on Hacker News said
If you enjoy that, try Player Piano, a moral discourse on technology and its social effects. Even though it is old, the social complications are familiar.
It's a story about a heavily computerized society, but the computers are vacuum tube based. "We ran the calculation, replaced all the tubes and ran it again, so we're confident in the result" sort of thing.
Player Piano has felt more relevant in this new AI age
Where it comes up
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