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Automation and us, carr continues to pursue this line of thought, but complicates his earlier critique in a twofold way. In the glass cage, bestselling author nicholas carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and selfdriving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work. The glass cage is a call for technology that complements our human capabilities, rather than replacing them. With peter graves, martin landau, barbara bain, greg morris. The glass cage by nicholas carr a word processor might have saved tolstoy enough time to write three more works like war and peace.
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Ivan hit the glass with the baseball bat mack gave him for his 6th birthday. Luddites protested against the industrial revolution because machines were replacing jobs formerly done by laborers. Jonathan safran foer nick carr is the rare thinker who understands that technological progress is both essential and worrying. In the glass cage, bestselling author nicholas carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and selfdriving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. With john ireland, honor blackman, geoffrey keen, eric pohlmann. How did the hole in the glass wall of ivans cage get there. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
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