'In The Glass Cage', best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.

Alert for operations -- 1. Passengers -- 2. The robot at the gate -- 3. On autopilot -- 4. The degeneration effect -- Interlude with dancing mice -- 5. White collar computer -- 6. World and screen -- 7. Automation for the people -- Interlude with grave robber -- 8. Your inner drone -- 9. The love that lays the swale in rows