The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us - Nicholas Carr Audiobook
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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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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
February 1st, 2019
Cool, Mojo - comprehensive and clever. Not to be unduly ararmist, but we’re sleepwalking into a post-human dystopia!
February 1st, 2019
That’s supposed to be alarmist, solly!
February 2nd, 2019
The irony of being alarmist about using computers too much on a website for audiobooks
February 2nd, 2019
@CaptainSharpe - As the Pythons used to say: that’s where my argument falls to the ground.
February 2nd, 2019
caesar, take a listen to “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” it will really put you in a narky mood.
February 2nd, 2019
They’re watching me all the time I tell ya, ssafe!
We’re bound to get suspicious when even Zuckerberg is taping over his webcam. Set your privacy settings to stunned!
February 3rd, 2019
Thank you
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