The Glass Cage:

How Our Computers Are Changing

Us
By: TJ Eubanks, Sydney Hedrick,
Maddie Sorensen ,and Maddie
Russell

Introduction
The Glass Cage was written by Nicholas Carr, who explores the
consequences affiliated with giving software control over our
everyday lives.
The Glass Cage explores the impact of technology and automation
from a very human perspective.
Through a combination of history and philosophy, the book proposes
a way to use technology to expand the human experiences of
being human; rather than narrowing it.

On Autopilot
Chapter three of The Glass Cage discusses the progression of
autopilot.
-The beginning of autopilot:
-June 18, 1914 Concours de la Securite en Aeroplane in Paris
-Debut of the first flight operated by gyroscopic stabilizer
apparatus
-Modern uses of autopilot:
-Commercial flights and warfare

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows

-Burden of labor eased the burden of life
- Csikszentmihalyi and Lefevre study in the 1980s on the difference in
people's self worth between work and leisure time.
strong positive feelings and felt fulfilled at work
tended to feel bored and anxious at leisure hours

- Computers take the work out of work

The Degeneration Effect

People become helpless
Automation Complacency - false sense of security in technology
Automation Bias - always believe monitors even if incorrect

Trusting too much in technology

Awareness of outside world decreases

Carr, Nicholas G. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. New York: W. W. Norton,
2014. Print.