In the 1970s, inexpensive electronic calculators, using microchips, displaced adding machines altogether. Calculating machines, which could multiply (and, sometimes, divide), met a similar fate. The ...

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In “The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Morality Play,” pencil-pushing protagonist Mr. Zero — played in turns by everyone in the cast — endures layers of indignity, losing his job to a machine ...

His latest production with The Feast is a reinterpretation of “The Adding Machine,” a 100 year old play about automation by playwright Elmer Rice. A new version of the play at Seattle ...

His latest production with The Feast is a reinterpretation of “The Adding Machine,” a 100 year old play about automation by playwright Elmer Rice. A new version of the play at Seattle ...