‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr

Via  The Boston Globe: Book review: ‘The Glass Cage: Automation and Us’ by Nicholas Carr - Books - The Boston Globe.

Key sentence: "...all of us will see our skills eroded, our intelligence debased, and our work devalued, if we sacrifice human responsibility to black boxes full of microchips."

Points:
  • "...machines are coming for the well-paying jobs we perform in air-conditioned offices or clean, well-lighted factories, or the cockpits of commercial aircraft."
  • "...the smartest and most diligent workers can be dumbed down by the digital tools meant to assist them."
  • "...automated systems should require humans to participate in vital activities."
  • "...we’ll have to tolerate a world of ever smarter machines, operated by ever less capable humans."