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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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Sep 8, 2014 · 2,241 ratings325 reviews. 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 ...
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The Glass Cage is a call for technology that complements our human capabilities, rather than replacing them.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus “Sweeping, engaging, informative, [ The Glass Cage ] elicits much needed reflection on the philosophical and ethical implications of over-reliance on automation.
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Sep 8, 2015 · A new, expanded edition of "The Shallows" was published in 2020. Carr’s 2014 book "The Glass Cage: Automation and Us," which the New York Review of Books called a “chastening meditation on the human future,” examines the personal and social consequences of our ever growing dependency on computers, robots, and apps.
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Jan 20, 2015 · The “de-skilling” that occurs when pilots no longer fly planes is happening across the board. The first few chapters of The Glass Cage have a familiar ring to them. If you haven’t come ...
Jan 11, 2015 · This is the thesis of a new book, The Glass Cage, by US technology writer Nicholas Carr, whose previous work has included the popular essay “ Is Google Making us Stupid? ”. He argues that our ...
Oct 10, 2014 · The Glass Cage. By Nicholas Carr. Norton, 276 pages, $26.95. In addition to the economic consequences, “The Glass Cage” explores the alienating and “deskilling” effects of this high-tech ...
