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Book

The glass cage : automation and us

Call Number

  • 303.483 C3122 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014

Physical Description

viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm

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.

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.

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