Read the whole book, if you want to understand the dangers that many forms of automative intermediation pose to what Carr (and I, and I bet you) think is the best way of living in the world.” -Daniel Menaker, New York Times Book Review I read it without putting it down.” -Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and His Emissary

“A very necessary book, that we ignore at our peril. The Glass Cage should be required reading for everyone with a phone.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

“Nicholas Carr is among the most lucid, thoughtful, and necessary thinkers alive. Mixing history and philosophy, poetry and science, the book culminates in a moving meditation on how we can use technology to expand the human experience rather than narrow it. Our lives may be easier inside the glass cage, but something essential is missing.įrom doctors’ offices to the cockpits of passenger 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. Drawing on studies that underscore how tightly our sense of happiness and personal fulfillment is tied to performing skilled work in the real world, he reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. In The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, his widely praised follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Shallows, bestselling author Nicholas Carr explores how our ever growing dependency on computers, apps, and robotics is reshaping our jobs, talents, and lives.ĭigging behind the headlines about artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, digitized medicine and workplace robots, Carr explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. “A cultural manifesto.” - Los Angeles Review of Books “Not only persuasive but undoubtedly right.” - Wall Street Journal

“Essential.” - New York Times Book Review “ chastening meditation on the human future.” - New York Review of Books

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