The Glass Cage：Automation and Us

The Glass Cage：Automation and Us

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作者: Nicholas Carr 著

出版社: W. W. Norton & Company

出版时间: 2014-09

ISBN: 9780393240764

定价: 299.30

装帧: 精装

开本: 其他

纸张: 其他

页数: 288页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>工程技术

2 "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， 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. 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.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." 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.
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2 "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， 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. 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.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."
作者简介:
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.

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