Redekop, C., & Bender U. A.
(1988).
Who Am I? What Am I: Search for Meaning in Your Work.
Within a few short years, mechanization, automation, and computerization have changed the nature of work so completely that the machine has now become the worker. Now also—incredible irony—the machine dictates the work arrangements of the human accomplice. Instead of the human controlling the machine, as has been the case during the early years of technological development, the human is forced to adapt to and serve the rythyms of the machine." (p. 177)
Roszak, T.
(1986).
Cult of Information.
"The result [in Vonnegut's book Player Piano] is a technocratic despotism wholly controlled by information technicians and corporate managers. The book raises the issue whether technology should be allowed to do all that it can do, especially when its powers extend to the crafts and skills which give purpose to people's lives. The machines are slaves, Vonnegut's rebellious engineer-hero insists. True, they make life easier in many ways; but they also compete with people. And 'anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave.' As Vonnegut observes, 'Norbert Weiner, a mathematician, said all that way back in the nineteen-forties.'" (p. 11)