Nicholas G Carr
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...