In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind
the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable
computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs
of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even
as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing
something essential from us.
Drawing on psychological and neurological studies that
underscore how tightly people s happiness and satisfaction are tied
to performing hard work in the real world, Carr reveals something
we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can
leave us disengaged and discontented.
From nineteenth-century textile mills to the cockpits of modern
jets, from the frozen hunting grounds of Inuit tribes to the
sterile landscapes of GPS maps, The Glass Cage explores the impact
of automation from a deeply human perspective, examining the
personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing
dependence on computers.
With a characteristic blend of history and philosophy, poetry
and science, Carr takes us on a journey from the work and early
theory of Adam Smith and Alfred North Whitehead to the latest
research into human attention, memory, and happiness, culminating
in a moving meditation on how we can use technology to expand the
human experience."
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