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Formerly executive editor in chief of Random House, is the author of six books, most recently, "My Mistakes: A Memoir".

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A novelist and journalist.

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British journalist and author of four books.

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Writer for the Los Angeles Times.

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“Similarly essential if slightly repetitive, Carr explains how certain aspects of automation technology can separate us from well, reality.”

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“Carr isn’t anti-technology. He just wary of  a world in which machines take centre stage.”

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".... 'friendship becomes more like the attachment between consumers and products' (Carr, 2014). Easy come, easy go. Belief that technology is “benevolent, self-healing, autonomous”

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“Automation brings with it a whole new set of philosophical and ethical considerations we’ve barely begun to consider.”

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“Fundamental intriguing questions...how automation influences us.”  (Kavenna, New Scientist, 2014)

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“He extends his focus to consider what automation is doing to humans”

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“Who is it serving, this new technology, asks Carr... The questions shouldn't be 'who cares?' he says at one point. It should be: how far from the world do we want to retreat?"

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Cadwalladr, C. (Jan. 18, 2015). The New Review: Books: Technology: Set the controls for a future disaster: Carole Cadwalladr is persuaded by this argument that our very humanity is at risk from automation: The Glass Cage: Where Automation I Taking Us. Nicholas Carr, Bodley Head pound 20, pp288. (2015, January 18). Observer [London, England], p. 37 Retrieved from http//go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=STOM&sw=w&u=921haea&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA397798548&sid+ebsco&asid=95067eb76de5b8724fd183f8e2743cf3

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“...expands the field of his paranoia to computers in general rather than just the kind we use for looking things up on Wikipedia.”

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"The digital age is changing who we are… deeper, hidden effects automation can take a toll on our work, our talents, and our lives. It can narrow our perspectives and limit our choices.”

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"... the real sentimental fallacy today is 'the assumption that the new thing is always better suited to our purpose and intentions that the old thing. That’s the view of a child, naïve and pliable' ”.

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“With every new example of the deskilling, dehumanizing and sometimes life-threating perils of automation, Carr takes care to acknowledge its benefits”.

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“seek to disentangle the individual from the ties that bind, and to detach the “I” from the “we”.

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“...picks up speed as go along... Short sentences which make us stop and think, which is all Carr is asking us to do…"

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"The last chapter is the most impressive… presents his convictions about the ideal relationship between our tools and ourselves."

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“...'the automation of mental labor, by changing the nature and focus of intellectual endeavor, may end up eroding one of the foundations of culture itself: our desire to understand the world.' There is no credible evidence given in the book to support this bizarre conclusion.”

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“Carr himself falls victim to a kind of literary automaticity, using such colloquially prefab wording as “no big deal”, “thorny questions”, “sure bet”…  “And there’s elegant variation here and there”…

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“Carr is also prone to the omission of facts that weaken his point”

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“Repetition of some central ideas, such as… the blessings of automation and the ways automation frequently begin to dictate human action as and thought processes rather then the other way around…”

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“Nearly every working American, by this time- already knows that it is foolish to rely too heavily on technology and has already been acting on that knowledge for a long while.”

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“overabundance of quoted sources… but that apparatus also demonstrates the wide research that underlies Carr’s facts, fears, and philosophy.”

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“Carr’s vision is bleak—and exaggerated”

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Kavenna, J. (2014). Review: High-tech psyche. New Scientist, 22348-49. doi:10.1016/So262-4079 (14)61865.

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Menaker, D. (2014). 'The Glass Cage' by Nicholas Carr. New York Times, p. BR11.

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Bustillos, M. (2014, September 19). Review: Nicholas Carr's latest anti-technology rant, "The Glass Cage", Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-nicholas-carr-20140921-story.html