Robbie Walsh’s Reviews > Player Piano > Status Update

Its fascinating how close to reality this book is given it was written in 1952... living in a world dominated by automation that alienates workers from their labour. Machines take up more and more jobs, leaving the masses to become numb, drunk, consumers funded by UBI. Only a few engineers maintain their status and reap the rewards of their labour, but one by one, they make themselves redundant via their creations.