Epicac

The story of “Epicac” written by popular satirist Kurt Vonnegut takes its readers into the life of man and machine. There was been an excessive rise of technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in Vonnegut tries to satirize the growing boom of technology in modern society. Vonnegut’s major theme in the story of the doomed computer tells readers one important thing about modern society. Society is relying on technology too much and is going too far with its technological advancements.
The story takes place in an enormous lab for militia who are trying to develop the world’s largest super computer to use in general warfare. The computer, known as a Epicac, came out to be the world’s largest computer consisting of seven tons of electronic tubes, wires, and switches that covered the entire fourth floor of the building that he rested in (297). He was built to plot the course of any rocket located anywhere on Earth and could do the quickest calculating than anythin...