The Glass Cage
Subtitle: automation and us
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780393240764
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Alert for operators; title: Passengers; title: The robot at the gate; title: On autopilot; title: The degeneration effect; title: Interlude, with dancing mice; title: White-collar computer; title: World and screen; title: Automation for the people; title: Interlude, with grave robber; title: Your inner drone; title: The love that lays the swale in rows