The Glass Cage How Our Computers Are Changing Us [Paperback]

InNicholas Carr is among the most lucid, thoughtful, and necessary thinkers alive. Hes also terrific company.Nick Carr is the rare thinker who understands that technological progress is both essential and worrying.Carr's prose is elegant, and he has an exceptional command of the facts. He serves a varied menu of the ways that technology has failed us, and in every instance he is not only persuasive but undoubtedly right.[A] deeply informed reflection on computer automation.Smart, insightful&paint[s] a portrait of a world readily handing itself over to intelligent devices.Brings a much-needed humanistic perspective to the wider issues of automation.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.There have been few cautionary voices like Nicholas Carrs urging us to take stock, especially, of the effects of automation on our very humannesswhat makes us who we are as individualsand on our humanitywhat makes us who we are in aggregate.At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse,