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Player Piano and Technology | Van Kooten on Player Piano

Should We Be Worried? Rick Van Kooten   Ah, to return to the days of the skinny black tie, white shirts, and horn-rimmed glasses of the Houston-we-have-a-problem-era engineers! First a digression on the difference between scientists and engineers, from personal experience: as an undergrad, I was in an “Engineering Science” program that straddled both fields. Despite this increased scope, I …

“To the Record” | Sandweiss on Player Piano

A Historian Sits at Vonnegut’s Piano Eric Sandweiss   “To the record.” It seems an oddly resigned cry with which to toast the failed revolution that closes Player Piano. Is this what it all comes down to—Paul Proteus’s final survey of the wreckage left by his comrades’ failed effort to upend the machinery of a soulless society, punctuated with a …