A review by richardndl
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

3.0

I hadn't read much Vonnegut, and none in a very, very long time. I had never read Player Piano. The book is interesting, extremely well written, and well thought out. The problem is, it just doesn't hold up well over time. It depicts a society where day to day decisions and management are given over to machines and there becomes a huge dichotomy between engineers and managers on one side and everybody else on relegated to the other. The problem is that two things driving the machines are vacuum tubes and punch cards. I'm old enough to remember when that did sound like the future, but it somehow sounds like a joke today.