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Author Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-

Title The glass cage : automation and us / Nicholas Carr
Edition First edition
Published New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

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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.
Automation -- Social aspects.
LC no. 2014012271
ISBN 9780393240764 (hardcover)
0393240762 (hardcover)