Recent trends, ideas, and technology have helped bring about greater mechanization in society. We have ATMs to replace bank tellers, robots perform assembly line work in virtually every automotive company, and computers are increasingly integrated into our daily lives. People are slowly but surely being replaced by my machines and artificial "workers". Kurt Vonnegut predicted this movement of mechanization in the 1950s and responds to the dehumanization of society in his novel Player Piano. In Vonnegut's fictional world, machines and computers eliminated the need for industrial workers after the Second Industrial Revolution. Society is thus divided into two unequal classes made up of the managers and engineers of the machines, who enjoy exclusive social status and privileges, and the rest of the population who lives without happiness or dignity. The two populations live in segregation, with the north side of the river reserved for the upper class and the south side of the river, known as the Homestead, home to everyone else. Although all it...