Summary
A panoramic expose of the decision-making software running our lives - and how it is changing us all.In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn and solve problems.In May 2009 an Airbus A330 passenger jet equipped with the latest ‘glass cockpit’ controls plummeted 30,000 feet into the Atlantic. The reason for the cr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099597452 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099597454 |
| Author: | Nicholas Carr |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Nicholas Carr is among the most lucid, thoughtful and necessary thinkers alive. The Glass Cage should be required reading for everyone with a phone
Nicholas Carr is among the most lucid, thoughtful and necessary thinkers alive. The Glass Cage should be required reading for everyone with a phone – Jonathan Safran FoerWritten with restrained objectivity, The Glass Cage is nevertheless as scary as any sci-fi thriller could be – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceNicholas Carr is the rare thinker who understands that technological progress is both essential and worrying. The Glass Cage is a call for technology that complements our human capabilities, rather than replacing them – Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes EverybodyA very necessary book, that we ignore at our peril. I read it without putting it down – Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His EmissaryAn important book … deep and valuable * The Times *Brings a much-needed humanistic perspective to the wider issues of automation … a persuasive … wide-ranging book * Financial Times *Elegantly persuasive … In his thoughtful, non-strident way, he is simply pointing out that the cost of automation may be far higher than we have realised * Telegraph *Excellent … beautifully written … Put down your phone, take off your Google Glass and read this * BBC Focus *A valuable corrective to the belief that technology will cure all ills, and a passionate plea to keep machines the servants of humans, not the other way round * Sunday Times *Carr argues, very convincingly, that automation is eroding our memory while simultaneously creating a complacency within us that will diminish our ability to gain new skills … I had always wondered if it were possible Google Maps was ruining my sense of direction. Now I am certain of it * Evening Standard *
About The Author
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows- What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a New York Times bestseller, as well as two other influential books, The Big Switch- Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008) and Does IT Matter? (2004). His books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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