Description |
viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Alert for operators -- 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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-261) and index |
Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects.
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Automation -- Social aspects.
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LC no. |
2014012271 |
ISBN |
9780393240764 (hardcover) |
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0393240762 (hardcover) |
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