Tag: The Glass Cage

• Favorite Books of 2014

  My favorite books from 2014 are all nonfiction, a thoroughly unsurprising result of it being way easier for me to get through a 700-page historical tome than a 200-page novel. Sorry, novels: this year it was especially true that the truth is stranger and more fascinating than fiction. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us…

  Jan 16, 2015

  # Akron, best of, books, Five Came Back, freediving, James Nestor, lists, Mark Harris, Nicholas Carr, ocean, Randall Munroe, review, The Glass Cage, The Hard Way on Purpose, What If

• The Glass Cage

  To never confront the possibility of getting lost is to live in a state of perpetual dislocation. If you never have to worry about not knowing where you are, then you never have to know where you are. —Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage One time the internet went down at the library and it was like the Apocalypse.…

  Oct 24, 2014

  # automation, books, GPS, libraries, Nicholas Carr, review, technology, The Glass Cage