EAN: 9780393351637

THE GLASS CAGE - NICHOLAS CARR KARTONIERT (TB)

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. Even as they bring
ease to our lives  these programs are stealing something essential from us.  Drawing on
psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people's happiness and
satisfaction are tied to performing hard work in the real world  Carr reveals something we
already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and
discontented.   From nineteenth-century textile mills to the cockpits of modern jets  from the
frozen hunting grounds of Inuit tribes to the sterile landscapes of GPS maps  The Glass Cage
explores the impact of automation from a deeply human perspective  examining the personal as
well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers.   With a
characteristic blend of history and philosophy  poetry and science  Carr takes us on a journey
from the work and early theory of Adam Smith and Alfred North Whitehead to the latest research
into human attention  memory  and happiness  culminating in a moving meditation on how we can
use technology to expand the human experience.

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