Tag: Nicholas Carr
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Lissajous Trilogy 123
It is a humble pencil drawing. Created slowly, using traditional paper, pencil, ruler, and compass. Following the principles of descriptive geometry. No need to install something. No need to debug why version x of a tool does not play nicely with operating system y. All the code, all the documentation, all the steps of your…
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We Should Get Lost Sometimes – Nicholas Carr on Automation and Us
The Glass Cage is about automation’s human consequences. It is not intended to be your typical book about robots taking our jobs for better or for worse. Carr gives an intriguing account of the history of automation and robotics nonetheless – from Luddites to Google’s self-driving cars. What we have known intuitively is backed up…
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Looking Foward to ‘The Glass Cage’ – Random Ambiguous Thoughts
On September 29, Nicholas Carr’s book The Glass Cage – Automation and Us will be released. I have quoted Carr’s writings often on this blog, and his essay All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines might anticipate some of the ideas he is going to explore in…
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Shallow Waters and Deep Reading
I have re-read The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, and this is not a balanced book review. I am an occasional reader of popular psychology books and I am guilty of selecting these books according to my pre-established bias. The following experience puzzled me before I read the book: I spent a two-week…