If you think of yourself as a committed member of the digerati, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
, by Nicholas Carr, might give you pause.
Carr shows that as much as automation enriches our lives, it can also impoverish. For example, he describes how all-encompassing flight automation appears to have resulted in a “deskilling” of pilots, leading to a new type of aviation accident. And how implementing electronic medical records has had all sorts of unintended effects. More generally, he argues that unthinkingly embracing automation risks making us unwitting and complacent cogs in the machine.
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