Player Piano_ Machine will replace human’s job
Player Piano is Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel published in 1952. The efficiency and quality of work is described in a future that scientific developing creates a new and digital world. The story happens in a near future society, after World War 3, which is almost mechanized completely, discarding the need for human laborers. Vonnegut shows his skepticism about the future controlled by the electronic tools is the major theme of the novel. Society is run by a group of manager engineers. In addition, this widespread of mechanization causes two different sides between the social upper class where the engineers and managers keeping society operating, and the lower class, those job have been taken by intelligent machines. People whose jobs are displaced feel that their lives are useless and meaningless.
Player Piano is developed around the main character named Paul Proteus, who is the son of a former Works Manager, preparing to move up to the highest levels of management by himself, but he is worried in some way. Increasingly difficulty between displeased and stressful to advance, Paul carefully considers to change by deciding to buy a farm and choosing to avoid of the conflict. Anita disagrees that idea. His wife, Anita, forces him to advance, but many evenings he wears old clothes and goes to a bar on the other side of the river. In the bar is a player piano, that the author use as a key in this novel to symbolize an early automatic displacement of a human. Vonnegut used a player piano that is know as a modified piano that “play itself” as a metaphor to reveal how the novel’s fantastic society is controlled by machines instead of human working. For him, an old player piano in a muddy lower class neighborhood bar stands as the symbol of a society where machines have took over manual labor. Thus, Proteus becomes more and more