Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano was first published in 1952 and it is his first literary masterpiece. It examines a dystopian society run by machines in Vonnegut’s signature style— satirical‚ deadly serious but at the same time‚ wildly humorous. In Ilium‚ New York‚ people have no potential to be anything beyond a body with a letter and a number attached to it. For example Doctor Edward Francis Finnerty‚ a rebellious outsider with a brilliant mind and an old friend of the protagonist Paul Proteus‚ is
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<b>Outline</b> <br> <br>Thesis: Technology is the villain in Kurt Vonnegut’s works because of his hatred of corporate insensitivity and his awareness of the destructive social impact of science and technology. <br> <br>I. Kurt Vonnegut has a great awareness of the destructive social impact of science and technology. <br>A. Contraptions that Vonnegut calls "social transplants" replace contact with the awful real relatives and friends with synthetic ones. <br>1. Computers minimize human contact even
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