Includes bibliographical references [pages 233-261] and index. Previously published under the title The glass cage : automation and us. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Contents:
Alert for operations -- Passengers -- The robot at the gate -- On autopilot -- The degeneration effect -- Interlude with dancing mice -- White-collar computer -- World and screen -- Automation for the people -- Interlude, with grave robber -- Your inner drone -- The love that lays the swale in rows.
Summary:
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 and reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.
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