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Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano is an insightful satire concerning the direction of American industry in the 1950s. Taking place in the future, the novel portrays a world where ‘efficient’ machines have taken the place of the factory worker and are now in charge of the nation’s production. In this futuristic vision of America, a new elite class, that of the engineer and the manager, has arisen and it is they who run and maintain the self-regulating factories and dominate the country economically. Since waste and starvation have been eliminated, the nation, at least on the surface, seems to be a better place. But has the life of the common citizen, a life without human contact, chance of improvement or purpose, really changed for the better? It is obvious that Vonnegut, with his deeply satirical words, attempts to stimulate the reader into asking himself this question and many more. Questioning the technolog