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In The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, his widely praised follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Shallows, bestselling author Nicholas Carr explores how our ever growing dependency on computers, apps, and robotics is reshaping our jobs, talents, and lives.
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Nicholas Carr is a renowned American writer on business and technological topics. He first came to the world’s attention with an often debated 2008 “Atlantic” article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” He further devised the ideas expounded in the article in his 2010 book, “The Shallows” which was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer General Nonficti...
The main idea behind “The Glass Cage,” Nicholas Carr’s “essential” book on the effect of automation on human cognition is very simple: the smarter the machines are, the dumber and more isolated the humans will become. That’s, in fact, the main metaphor contained within the very title. “As we begin to live our lives inside glass cockpits,” he writes...
1. Automation Has Its Good Sides… 2. …And Its Best Sides 3. Beware of the Latter to Reap the Rewards
Nov 7, 2014 · In this new book, “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us,” similarly essential if slightly repetitive, Carr explains how certain aspects of automative technology can separate us from, well,...
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Jan 14, 2020 · In The Glass Cage, Carr warns about a near future that is dominated by artificial intelligence – he argues that the problems that come with advanced artificial intelligence go beyond the loss of jobs for some people the way technology always had.
Sep 8, 2014 · 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.
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The Glass Cage INTRODUCTION: ALERT FOR OPERATORS This is a book about automation, about the use of computers and software to do things we used to do ourselves. It’s about automation’s human consequences. Computer automation makes our lives easier, our chores less burdensome. We’re often able to accomplish more in less time—or to
At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day., The Glass Cage, How Our Computers Are Changing Us, Nicholas Carr, 9780393351637
