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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.” (Jonathan Safran Foer)“Nick Carr is the rare thinker who understands that

Title	:	The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
Author	:	Nicholas Carr
Rating	:	4.88 (831 Votes)
Asin	:	0393351637
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-9-24
Language	:	English

“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 Foer)“Nick Carr is the rare thinker who understands that technological progress is both essential and worrying. Pascal Zachary - San Francisco Chronicle)“Smart, insightful…paints a portrait of a world readily handing itself over to intelligent devices.” (Jacob Axelrad - Christian Science Monitor)“Brings a much-needed humanistic perspective to the wider issues of automation.” (Richard Waters - Financial Times)“One of Carr's great strengths as a critic is the measured calm of his approach to his materiala rare thing in debates over technology…Carr excels at exploring these gray areas and illuminating for readers the intangible things we are losing by automating our lives.” (Ch

Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he has written for The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Wired. Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Glass Cage, among other books.

. He lives in Boulder, Colorado

---. 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

While I happen to disagree with a number of her assumptions and expectations about the place of knitting in society, it's not that disagreement that makes me unhappy with the book. Just trying to read it gives me a headache. Beyond excellent!. He touched on religion, but by uncommon subject with the Christ-told "Parable of the good shepherd" and "Parable of the wise and foolish virgins" from the New Testament and with "Suicide of Saul" from the Old Testament; and by unusual presentation with the contemporary, stagelike "Death of the virgin." He dipped into comic genre without ending up second-rate with the carefully cross-hatched and solidly outlined "Ass at school." The lasting, widespread popularity of his art was partly due to his designs for prints, whose final look he controlled with Maarten van Heemskerck-type highly specific detail and with printmaker-friendly shading and textures: "Landscape with bears" was the first of 32 drawings directly modeled for prints; and "Rabbit hunt was the only print that he created, with distinctly outlined, light-filled foliage and imposing mountains broadly hatched and finely speckled and with its dark theme of soldiers distressing peasants the same as his "Massacre of the innocents" painting and "Milites requiescentes" print.