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9/10/2018

book review of Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

relatively short book where the main topics are machine vs human decisions and totalitarian regime based on reason only.

the idea:
the book is set in the future and the USA has undergone a 2nd industrial revolution - this time it is automatization that increased the production and made our lives much much better but the price we pay is our individual freedom.
Each person undergoes an evaluation by this super computer (it is a funny scene where they visit this computer and it is so large) and then the government assigns him an career path. The result of such assignments is that the economy works very well but no-one can change it.
Of course, the book focuses on few individuals that undergo transformations with respect to how they perceive the system and its benefits.

Overall this is a nice science fiction that flows little slow for my taste.

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