Shelf Source: Chad Comello | Road Less Read

Shelf Source talks to readers who share books they love on their sites. Today I'm joined by Chad Comello. Hope you enjoy reading, and do visit his site and say hello! Interview What Book Changed How You Think About the Internet Or Consumer Technology? The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr. Carr's first book The Shallows (2010) was more specifically about the internet and what it does to our brains, but The Glass Cage digs deeper into the cognitive and existential consequences of automation and what we lose when we cede so much control to machines — even helpful ones like GPS. I wrote a review after it came out in 2014 and have thought a lot about it ever since, especially in our new AI age. When You Finish a Book That Moves You, What's Your First Instinct? It used to be to log it on Goodreads, but I deleted my account last year (which might seem counterintuitive for a librarian and bookish person, but I found I wasn't using it and didn't care to stick around as Amazon…