https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr A compilation of book reviews for The glass cage: by Nicholas Carr en-us 2017-10-08 05:45:43 UTC 2017-10-10 13:39:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195140364  “Fundamental intriguing questions...how automation influences us.”  (Kavenna, New Scientist, 2014)  ]]> 2017-10-09 09:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195140364 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195145905 2017-10-09 09:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195145905 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195146475 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 ]]> 2017-10-09 09:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195146475 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148020 2017-10-09 09:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148020 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148176 2017-10-09 09:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148176 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148208 2017-10-09 09:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148208 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148271 2017-10-09 09:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148271 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148537 Kavenna, J. (2014). Review: High-tech psyche. New Scientist, 22348-49. doi:10.1016/So262-4079 (14)61865.]]> 2017-10-09 09:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195148537 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195149652 "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.” ]]> 2017-10-09 09:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195149652 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195150045 "... 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' ”. ]]> 2017-10-09 09:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195150045 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195150708 “seek to disentangle the individual from the ties that bind, and to detach the “I” from the “we”.  
 ]]> 2017-10-09 09:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195150708 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195151027 “Carr’s vision is bleak—and exaggerated” ]]> 2017-10-09 09:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195151027 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195151407 2017-10-09 09:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195151407 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195151610 2017-10-09 09:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195151610 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152314 2017-10-09 09:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152314 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152394 2017-10-09 09:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152394 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152441 2017-10-09 09:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152441 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152615 2017-10-09 09:58:02 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152615 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152655 2017-10-09 09:58:14 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152655 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152711 2017-10-09 09:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152711 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152757 2017-10-09 09:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152757 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152869 Menaker, D. (2014). 'The Glass Cage' by Nicholas Carr. New York Times, p. BR11.]]> 2017-10-09 09:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195152869 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195154639 “He extends his focus to consider what automation is doing to humans” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195154639 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195154920 “Carr isn’t anti-technology. He just wary of  a world in which machines take centre stage.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195154920 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195155304 ".... 'friendship becomes more like the attachment between consumers and products' (Carr, 2014). Easy come, easy go. Belief that technology is “benevolent, self-healing, autonomous” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195155304 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195155995 “Automation brings with it a whole new set of philosophical and ethical considerations we’ve barely begun to consider.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195155995 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195156379 “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?"]]> 2017-10-09 10:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195156379 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195157705 “Similarly essential if slightly repetitive, Carr explains how certain aspects of automation technology can separate us from well, reality.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195157705 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195157939 “With every new example of the deskilling, dehumanizing and sometimes life-threating perils of automation, Carr takes care to acknowledge its benefits”. ]]> 2017-10-09 10:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195157939 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195158272 “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”… ]]> 2017-10-09 10:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195158272 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195158856 “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…”   ]]> 2017-10-09 10:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195158856 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195159400 “overabundance of quoted sources… but that apparatus also demonstrates the wide research that underlies Carr’s facts, fears, and philosophy.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195159400 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195159608 “...picks up speed as go along... Short sentences which make us stop and think, which is all Carr is asking us to do…"]]> 2017-10-09 10:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195159608 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195160003 "The last chapter is the most impressive… presents his convictions about the ideal relationship between our tools and ourselves."  ]]> 2017-10-09 10:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195160003 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195160512 “...expands the field of his paranoia to computers in general rather than just the kind we use for looking things up on Wikipedia.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195160512 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195160789 “...'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.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195160789 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195161045 “Carr is also prone to the omission of facts that weaken his point” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195161045 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195161271 “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.” ]]> 2017-10-09 10:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195161271 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195163428 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]]> 2017-10-09 10:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195163428 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434409 Writer for the Los Angeles Times.]]> 2017-10-10 03:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434409 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434427 British journalist and author of four books.]]> 2017-10-10 03:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434427 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434439 A novelist and journalist.]]> 2017-10-10 03:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434439 melannwie https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434458 Formerly executive editor in chief of Random House, is the author of six books, most recently, "My Mistakes: A Memoir". ]]> 2017-10-10 03:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/melannwie/CriticsReviewNicholasCarr/wish/195434458