Clearly this review was not written with people like me as the intended audience, as the introductory paragraphs were almost completely incomprehensible to me on my first pass through them.<p>That said, what follows is an excellent argument for why Nicholas Carr's <i>The Glass Cage</i> is terrible. I assume the introduction designed to prime the intended audience* for this argument.<p>* Which I assume is made up entirely of people whom I'd be very sad to find myself at a cocktail party with (although I expect they'd be similarly sad to find themselves at a cocktail party with me). I'm reminded of Cryptonomicon and Dr. G.E.B. Kivistic.