"Use the left lane to take the Treasure Island exit," the voice on Luann's phone said. That didn't make sense. We've only lived in the Bay Area for a few months and had never driven across the Bay Bridge, but I'm still embarrassed to say I failed to override the robot. As we circled back around to continue across the bridge I thought I heard another voice. It sounded like Nick Carr saying, "I told you so!"
In The Glass Cage, Carr considers the many ways in which our growing reliance on automation can erode our skill and judgement. As was true in the case of his earlier book, The Shallows, which grew out of an Atlantic Monthly article with the sensational title "Is Google making us stupid?," The Glass Cage has been criticized as the anti-technology rant of a Luddite.
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