In emThe Glass Cageem, best-selling author 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. pDrawing on psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people's happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing hard work in the real world, Carr reveals something we already suspect shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.ppFrom nineteenth-century textile mills to the cockpits of modern jets, from the frozen hunting grounds of Inuit tribes to the sterile landscapes of GPS maps, emThe Glass Cageem explores the impact of automation from a deeply human perspective, examining the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers.ppWit