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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ISBN:0393240762 (hardcover)
ISBN:9780393240764 (hardcover)
Physical Description:viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
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