Reddit mentions of Player Piano: A Novel

Whoa what a strange comment to read. Im currently sitting next to my co-worker talking about this new book im reading, Player Paino, depicting a dystopia future due to automation and how it made everyone a slave to the system.

The book was recommended to me after I asked reddit if there were any books that dealt with the subject posted in this comment, if anyone is interested.

I felt like I just stumbled through a glitch in the Matrix...or Morpheus was trying to talk to me...when I read this comment, while I was talking about this new book I was reading, and pulling up that reddit comment to show him how I stumbled across that book.

Edit: Now this article is on the front page...

Wow. Reminds me of the book Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. Glad I looked!

OK Reddit. Carry on with the blowjob thing =)

TL;DR: Learn to read more.

Predicted over 50 years ago

That is not how it is going to happen.

The rift will not be among countries, but between classes inside each country. The filthy rich will benefit from this. The specialized white collar workers of the upper middle class will become richer. The lower middle class will disappear. There will be a huge, unemployed lower class with no work. It will destabilize countries without systems to deal with this.

If you want to read a good version of this, find a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's
Player piano.

I'm 57 and posting about college/jobs, but not about me. Im 57, dropped out of the corporate world in 1993, broke, started my own business, and doing well - I pay all my bills and my checks never bounce.

But posting to all the posts about college/jobs, most likely from the under 40 crowd. The BIG question that must be answered by YOUR generation is "what if we simply don't need everyone to work to provide ALL the goods and services needed and wanted by our society?"

It's only a theory (thus the LIE) that a capitalistic economy forever expands to provide (good) jobs for everyone who wants one.

Computers are in the 2nd half of the exponential curve of chip power, doubling in capacity every 2 years (Moore's Law) since 1958. Computers/robots/machines are now on-net eliminating human jobs.

READ: "Race Against the Machine": http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333472572&sr=8-1

AND: "Abundance" http://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Future-Better-Than-Think/dp/1451614217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333472597&sr=1-1

and if you want to read an ancient novel, there's the 1952 book by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "Player Piano" about a society where machines do ALL the work: http://www.amazon.com/Player-Piano-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333781/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333472653&sr=1-1

This "lie" you've been told is not ever again going to become a "truth"... spoiled milk put back in the refrigerator does not become good again. This "recession" and/or high-unemployment is not just a cycle. True, there have been many "crying wolf" since the early 1800's when British laborers violently protested the automation of sock making, but I for one just don't see how "creating jobs" can happen in a world were we can produce so much stuff and services so efficiently with the aid of a computer.

Does this sound right?

Read Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.

Dancing Girls of Lahore- Louise T. Brown

Player Piano- Kurt Vonnegut

Books:

Capital in the Twenty-First Century: http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X

Player Piano: http://www.amazon.com/Player-Piano-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333781

Manna: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: http://hpmor.com/



Videos:

Martin Gilens & Benjamin Page: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/kj9zai/martin-gilens---benjamin-page

That would be Player Piano. http://www.amazon.com/Player-Piano-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385333781