By Dusty Somers In Elmer Rice’s 1923 play “The Adding Machine,” an office drone is plunged into existential crisis when his accounting job is replaced by mechanical technology. A hundred…
By Diana Opong and Alec Cowan When tech companies began announcing advanced artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, there was widespread enthusiasm. AI was going to make mundane jobs more efficient;…
More than 100 years ago, Elmer Rice wrote a play about an accountant, Mr. Zero, who loses his job to a new piece of technology, an adding machine, then murders…
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