The Glass Cage – Automation and US

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.

In The Glass Cage, bestselling 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. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.

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.

About the author

Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed writer on technology and culture whose books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His new collection, “Utopia Is Creepy . . . and Other Provocations,” offers an alternative history of our tech-besotted times. It’s a “bright, fun, telling book,” says Kirkus Reviews.

Carr’s previous book, “The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us,” examines the personal, social, and economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers and robots to do our jobs and live our lives. The New York Times called the book “essential,” and the Wall Street Journal termed it “elegant.”

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