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.”