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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-     Subjects     Technology -- Social aspects.     Automation -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-       by title:      The glass cage : aut...         MARC Display

The glass cage : automation and us / Nicholas Carr. by Carr, Nicholas G., 1959- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2014. Subjects Technology -- Social aspects.   Automation -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780393240764 (hardcover) : 0393240762 (hardcover) Description:  viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Alert for operators -- Passengers -- The robot at the gate -- On autopilot -- The degeneration effect -- Interlude, with dancing mice -- White-collar computer -- World and screen -- Automation for the people -- Interlude, with grave robber -- Your inner drone -- The love that lays the swale in rows. Requests:  1 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 303.483 Ca missing from shelf Add Copy to MyList

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