The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

by Nicholas Carr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393240762
• ISBN13: 9780393240764
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.6"