Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as well as The Big Switch and Does IT Matter? His articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and the New Republic, and he writes the widely read blog Rough Type. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and an executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.
"Nicholas Carr is among the most lucid, thoughtful, and necessary
thinkers alive. He’s also terrific company. The Glass Cage should
be required reading for everyone with a phone."
*Jonathan Safran Foer*
"Artificial intelligence has that name for a reason—it isn’t
natural, it isn’t human. As Nicholas Carr argues so gracefully and
convincingly in this important, insightful book, it is time
for people to regain the art of thinking. It is time to invent a
world where machines are subservient to the needs and wishes of
humanity."
*Don Norman, author of Things that Make Us Smart and Design of
Everyday Things, director of the University of California San Diego
Design Lab*
"Written with restrained objectivity, The Glass Cage is
nevertheless scary as any sci-fi thriller could be. It forces
readers to reflect on what they already suspect, but don't want to
admit, about how technology is shaping our lives. Like it or not,
we are now responsible for the future of this negligible planet
circling Sol; books like this one are needed until we develop an
appropriate operating manual."
*Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience, professor of psychology and management, Claremont
Graduate University*
"Engaging, informative …Carr deftly incorporates hard research and
historical developments with philosophy and prose to depict how
technology is changing the way we live our lives."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Nick Carr is our most informed, intelligent critic of technology.
Since we are going to automate everything, Carr persuades us that
we should do it wisely—with mindful automation. Carr's
human-centric technological future is one you might actually want
to live in."
*Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick for Wired Magazine and author of What
Technology Wants*
"Most of us, myself included, are too busy tweeting to notice our
march into technological dehumanization. Nicholas Carr applies the
brakes for us (and our self-driving cars)."
*Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure*
"Carr brilliantly and scrupulously explores all the psychological
and economic angles of our increasingly problematic reliance on
machinery and microchips to manage almost every aspect of our
lives. A must-read for software engineers and technology experts in
all corners of industry as well as everyone who finds himself or
herself increasingly dependent on and addicted to gadgets."
*Booklist, Starred Review*
"Fresh and powerful."
*Mark Bauerlein - Weekly Standard*
"Nick Carr is the rare thinker who understands that technological
progress is both essential and worrying. The Glass Cage is a call
for technology that complements our human capabilities, rather than
replacing them."
*Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive
Surplus*
"A sobering new analysis of the hazards of intelligent
technology."
*Hiawatha Bray - Boston Globe*
"The Glass Cage is a worthy antidote to the relentlessly hopeful
futurism of Google, TED Talks and Walt Disney… The same way no
popular conversation on cloning can be had without bringing to mind
Michael Crichton's techno-jeremiad Jurassic Park, Carr's book is
positioned to stake out similar ground: To suggest moral restraint
on future development with a well-timed and well-placed
‘what-if?'"
*James Janega - Chicago Tribune*
"A stimulating, absorbing read."
*Michelle Scheraga - Associated Press*
"An elegantly written history of what role robotics have played in
our past, and the possible role that they may play in our future…
The Glass Cage urges us to take a moment, to take stock, and to
realize the price that we’re paying—if not right this second, then
certainly at some point in the future—in order to live a life
that’s made easier by technology."
*Elisabeth Donnelly - Flavorwire*
"Helps us appreciate why so-called gains of ‘superior results’ can
come with a steep price of hard-to-see tradeoffs that are no less
potent for being subtle and nuanced."
*Evan Seliger - Forbes Magazine*
"[A] deeply informed reflection on computer automation."
*G. Pascal Zachary - San Francisco Chronicle*
"Smart, insightful… paint[s] a portrait of a world readily handing
itself over to intelligent devices."
*Jacob Axelrad - Christian Science Monitor*
"Forces the reader to think about where we're going, how fast, and
what it all means."
*Phil Simon - Huffington Post*
"Brings a much-needed humanistic perspective to the wider issues of
automation."
*Richard Waters - Financial Times*
"One of Carr’s great strengths as a critic is the measured calm of
his approach to his material—a rare thing in debates over
technology… Carr excels at exploring these gray areas and
illuminating for readers the intangible things we are losing by
automating our lives."
*Christine Rosen, Democracy*
"There have been few cautionary voices like Nicholas Carr’s urging
us to take stock, especially, of the effects of automation on our
very humanness—what makes us who we are as individuals—and on our
humanity—what makes us who we are in aggregate."
*Sue Halpern - New York Review of Books*
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