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File Size: 839 KB
Print Length: 289 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (September 29, 2014)
Publication Date: September 29, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00J9PQXOE
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My first question on seeing this book was, is it going to be as successful and thought-provoking as Carr's previous book The Shallows? The answer is an unequivocal, "yes!"If you've not read The Shallows I recommend that you consider reading it first because many of the thoughts and ideas from it are continued, developed and extended in The Glass Cage. It's not a necessary prerequisite but it would enhance your appreciation of Carr's arguments.Carr's central thesis can be summed up in a quote often attributed to Marshall McLuhan, "we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us."Carr's point, which he develops with many intriguing examples ranging from airline pilots, through doctors, photographers, architects, and even to farmers, is that this Faustian pact with technology comes at a cost. The cost, in Carr's view, is a loss of direct, experiential, formative contact with our work. The consequences of this slow loss of familiarity and connection with our work are subtle, insidious and will only increase while we follow this technocentric approach to automation.Carr is excellent at making his case. Most of his examples are familiar and those that less so, such as the automation of legal and medical opinions are interesting in that they affect us all.I felt that where Carr was less strong was in proposing solutions to the problems he raises. He works hard at explaining an alternative vision calling on the poetry of Robert Frost's as a springboard to a more humanistic approach to developing tools, but it is hard work selling an alternative to the easy, convenient future that so many of us seem to crave.Ultimately it may be that Carr's biggest contribution will not be to single-handedly derail the future that Google, Apple, and Amazon wish to sell us, an exceedingly unlikely outcome, but to at least make us aware that there is a choice that we are making when we choose the frictionless path to the future, and that we should carefully consider that choice before we make it.
This is an important read. What happened in the airlines - the excessive automation killing the Pilots' skills, what is happening in Doctors' offices - (the device getting more attention of the Doctor than the patient) are worth knowing about. The latest Gartner report suggests disappearance of 6% of jobs by 2020 - just 4 years down the line. Yet, the politicians are busy promising millions of jobs if they are elected! The great divisiveness that is driving the public discourse, really serious loss of good paying jobs to Americans (irrespective of color) that has created desperation, and the relentless march of technology. Smart Meters take away meter reading jobs, no one needs to come to your doors to read your meter, or turn off the power (read - loss of jobs), Newspapers stop printing (read - loss of jobs), driverless vehicles hitting the roads (who needs MVA, who needs insurance, who needs highway police ---- read loss of jobs), and disappearing social safety net, increasing disparity. Time for a rapid reaction to avoid a broad social turmoil.
I was familiar with Nicholas Carr having read his book "The Shallows", a commentary on the effects on the Internet on the actual functioning and physical structure of the human brain. I found that book to be excellent - this one is, I feel, even better. Carr is remarkably thorough in the research he conducts, as attested to by the lengthy notes and references at the end of each book. His ability to write remarkably meaty yet easy to read pages is but a bonus in his analysis of the effects of automation on we humans faced with interacting with modern computerized/robotic technology, particularly in the workplace. He clearly feels there is considerable dehumanization possible, but does so in a style of oscillation back and forth between lionizing and demonizing technological advances. He gives the reader's brain the encouragement to see the whole picture, to think broadly and with a humanistic focus throughout. His weaving in of the opinions of numerous writers and poets displays this in the impressive manner of a Renaissance man. This should be required reading particularly by those enamored of technological advances as ends unto themselves.
When people think about and judge technology, they rarely consider its unintended consequences, particularly the way that it unknowingly changes our thinking, values, and behavior. In "The Glass Cage", Nicholas Carr adds to the growing literature that seeks to draw our attention to what we gain and lose in adopting technology. Far from being a Luddite, Carr (Like Neil Postman, Sherry Turkle, and many others) want us to THINK about what we gain and lose with any technology, and then make better decisions. Only in doing such thinking, and overtly deciding if, when, and how to use any technology, will humans really use technology rather than, in the words of Postman, let it use us. This book, like Carr's “The Shallows†should be widely read and deeply thought about.
This book was one I needed for an honors collegiate class. Given I am a computer science student, I assumed this was yet another book that would heedlessly bash technology and this generation. And to some extent it did. However, it took me by surprise and presented quite a bit of information in such a way that I felt concerned for this and future generations rather than attacked for using technology.Granted, Carr certainly proves that he deems many of the technologies of today dangerous, unnecessary and detrimental. But the philosophical and psychological arguments he made regarding our reliance on machines to do things for us (such as finding a significant other, and overall just becoming too involved in the digital world) is sorely detracting from our quality of life.Overall, it was a fantastic read that I thoroughly enjoyed, and I certainly benefited from it.
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