The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us

ISBN-13: 9780393351637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str.

Nicholas Carr

Opis

Drawing on psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people's happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing hard work in the real world, Carr reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.From nineteenth-century textile mills to the cockpits of modern 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, examining the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers.With a characteristic blend of history and philosophy, poetry and science, Carr takes us on a journey from the work and early theory of Adam Smith and Alfred North Whitehead to the latest research into human attention, memory, and happiness, culminating in a moving meditation on how we can use technology to expand the human experience.

O autorze

Nicholas Carr, geboren 1959, studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur an der Harvard University und war als Herausgeber der Harvard Business Review tätig. Mit Beiträgen u.a. in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Financial Times, Die Zeit, den Sachbüchern The Big Switch und Does IT Matter? und nicht zuletzt seinem wegweisenden Artikel Is Google Making Us Stupid? erwarb er sich den Ruf als einer der provokantesten und prophetischsten Denker zum gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Wandel in der Dot-Com-Ära.