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*
"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*
"Carr's prose is elegant, and he has an exceptional command of the
facts. He serves a varied menu of the ways that technology has
failed us, and in every instance he is not only persuasive but
undoubtedly right."
*Daniel Levitin - Wall Street Journal*
"[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*
"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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