The glass cage : automation and us /
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 and reveals something we already suspect:...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 and reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393240764 (hardcover) 0393240762 (hardcover) 9780393350777 (softcover) 0393350770 (softcover) |