{"id":25,"date":"2014-01-28T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:26:51","slug":"articles-essays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

A selection of articles, essays, and reviews.<\/p>\n

2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Revolutionary Post<\/a>, The Hedgehog Review
\n<\/em>Operation Gaslight<\/a>, The New Atlantis<\/em>
\nCan the Internet Be Saved?<\/a>, Los Angeles Review of Books
\n<\/em>How Big Tech Killed Literary Culture<\/a>, Unherd<\/em><\/p>\n

2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tyranny of Now<\/a>, The New Atlantis<\/em>
\nThe Myth of Automated Learning<\/a>, New Cartographies
\n<\/em>Strong Men and Strong Machines<\/a>, New Cartographies
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the Little Data<\/a>, The Hedgehog Review
\n<\/em>Dead Labor, Dead Speech<\/a>, New Cartographies<\/em><\/p>\n

2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to Fix Social Media<\/a>, The New Atlantis
\n<\/em>Beautiful Lies: The Art of the Deep Fake<\/a>, Los Angeles Review of Books
\n<\/em>Meanings of the Metaverse<\/a>, Rough Type
\n<\/em>The Automatic Muse<\/a>, Rough Type
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keys to Amazon’s Success<\/a> (review of Bezonomics<\/em>), Washington Post
\n<\/em>What Is It Like to Be a Smartphone?<\/a>, Rough Type<\/em><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism<\/a>, Los Angeles Review of Books
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is Facebook the Problem with Facebook, or Is It Us?<\/a>, Washington Post<\/em>
\n“It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature”: Trite or Just Right?<\/a>, Wired
\n<\/em>I Am a Data Factory (and So Are You)<\/a>, Rough Type
\n<\/em>Can Journalism Be Saved?<\/a>,\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books
\n<\/a><\/em>Why Trump Tweets (and Why We Listen)<\/a>, Politico
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds<\/a>, Wall Street Journal<\/em>
\nThese Are Not the Robots We Were Promised<\/a>, New York Times<\/em>
\nInformation Overload<\/a>, New Philosopher
\n<\/em>Zuckerberg’s World<\/a>, Rough Type<\/em>
\nA Brutal Intelligence<\/a> (review of Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking<\/em>), Los Angeles Review of Books
\n<\/em>A Smaller, Nastier World<\/a>, Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Behind Frenemy Lines<\/a>, MIT Technology Review<\/em>
\nThe World Wide Cage<\/a>, Aeon<\/em>
\nSupple Mind<\/a> (review of David Gelernter’s Tides of Mind<\/em>),\u00a0First Things<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/a>Context Collapse and Context Restoration<\/a>, Rough Type<\/em>
\nWhen Our Culture’s Past Is Lost in the Cloud<\/a>\u00a0(review of Abby Smith Rumsey’s When We Are No More<\/em>),\u00a0Washington Post
\n<\/em>Let’s Rein in the Internet of Things Before It’s Too Late<\/a>, Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

La ilusi\u00f3n de Silicon Valley<\/a>, El Pais<\/em>
\nHow Social Media Is Ruining Politics<\/a>, Politico<\/em>
\nWhy Robots Will Always Need Us<\/a>,\u00a0New York Times
\n<\/em>Welcome to Nowheresville<\/a>, Penguin Books Blog<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Automation Makes Us Dumb<\/a>, Wall Street Journal<\/em>
\nYour Inner Drone<\/a>, Longreads<\/em>
\nThe Manipulators<\/a>, Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>
\nThe Patience Deficit<\/a>, Mother Jones<\/em>
\nThe Limits of Social Engineering<\/a> (review of Alex Pentland’s\u00a0Social Physics<\/em>), MIT Technology Review<\/em>
\nThe Dreams of Readers<\/a>, Rough Type<\/em><\/p>\n

2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attention Must Be Paid<\/a> (review of Focus<\/em> by Daniel Goleman), New York Times Book Review
\n<\/em>The Great Forgetting<\/a>, The<\/em>\u00a0Atlantic
\n<\/em>Paper Versus Pixel<\/a>, Nautilus<\/em>
\nThe New Digital Age<\/a> (review of Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s book), San Francisco Chronicle
\n<\/em>Techno-Fix Troubles<\/a> (review of Evgeny Morozov\u2019s\u00a0To Solve Everything, Click Here<\/em>\u00a0and Jaron Lanier\u2019s\u00a0Who Owns the Future?<\/em>), Nature
\n<\/em>Don’t Burn Your Books \u2013 Print Is Here to Stay<\/a>, Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Crisis in Higher Education<\/a> (article on MOOCs), MIT Technology Review
\n<\/em>Why Our Innovators Traffic in Trifles<\/a>, Wall Street Journal
\n<\/em>The Library of Utopia<\/a>, MIT Technology Review<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a02011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books That Are Never Done Being Written<\/a>, Wall Street Journal
\n<\/em>Growing Up Google<\/a> (review of Douglas Edwards’s I’m Feeling Lucky<\/em>), The<\/em>\u00a0National Interest
\n<\/em>Past-Tense Pop<\/a> (review of Simon Reynolds’s Retromania<\/em>), The<\/em>\u00a0New Republic
\n<\/em>The Medium Is McLuhan<\/a> (review of Douglas Coupland’s Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!<\/em>), The\u00a0<\/em>New Republic
\n<\/em>Drowning in Beeps<\/a> (review of James Gleick’s The Information<\/em>), The Daily Beast
\n<\/em>Situational Overload and Ambient Overload<\/a>, Rough Type<\/em><\/p>\n

2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Dangers of Web Tracking<\/a>, Wall Street Journal<\/em>
\nGooglethink<\/a>, The<\/em>\u00a0Atlantic
\n<\/em>Hooked<\/a> (review of Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives<\/em>), The<\/em>\u00a0New Republic
\n<\/em>Deafened<\/a> (review of George Prochnik’s In Pursuit of Silence<\/em>), The\u00a0<\/em>New Republic
\n<\/em>Does the Internet Make You Dumber?<\/a>, Wall Street Journal
\n<\/em>The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains<\/a>, Wired
\n<\/a><\/em>The PC Officially Died Today<\/a>, The\u00a0<\/em>New Republic
\n<\/em>Are Google Maps and GPS Bad for Our Brains?<\/a>, Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n

2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Price of Free<\/a>, New York Times Magazine
\n<\/em>Googled<\/a> (review of Ken Auletta’s book), San Francisco Chronicle
\n<\/em>Computing the Cost<\/a> (interview), The Sun<\/em><\/p>\n

2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is Google Making Us Stupid?<\/a>, The<\/em>\u00a0Atlantic
\n<\/em>The Internet Rewards the Lazy and Punishes the Intrepid<\/a>, Guardian<\/em>
\nWhat Google Wants Is to Condemn Microsoft to the Electric Chair<\/a>, Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

2007<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Oldest Profession Combined with the Newest Technology<\/a>, Guardian<\/em>
\nThe Google Enigma<\/a>, Strategy & Business
\n<\/em>The Self-Recording Craze<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Guardian
\n<\/em>The Ignorance of Crowds<\/a>, <\/span>Strategy & Business
\n<\/em>The Information Plantations<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Weakest Link<\/a>, Strategy & Business
\n<\/em>Complementary Genius<\/a>, Strategy & Business<\/em><\/p>\n

2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flying Blind<\/a>, Strategy & Business
\n<\/em>The End of Corporate Computing<\/a>, MIT Sloan Management Review
\n<\/em>Does Not Compute<\/a>, New York Times<\/em>
\nTop-Down Disruption<\/a>, Strategy & Business
\n<\/em>The Amorality of Web 2.0<\/a>, Rough Type
\n<\/em>Suits to the Rescue<\/a>, Strategy & Business<\/em><\/p>\n

2004<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bridging the Breakthrough Gap<\/a>,\u00a0Strategy & Business
\n<\/em>The IT Advantage Thrown into Question<\/a>, Financial Times
\n<\/em>Mastering Imitation<\/a>,\u00a0Strategy & Business<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a02003<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT Doesn’t Matter<\/a>, Harvard Business Review<\/em><\/p>\n

2002<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unreal Options<\/a>, Harvard Business Review<\/em><\/p>\n

2001<\/strong><\/p>\n

Generation Blog<\/a>, the Industry Standard<\/em><\/p>\n

2000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gated Communities<\/a>, Industry Standard
\n<\/em>Hypermediation: Commerce as Clickstream<\/a>, Harvard Business Review<\/em><\/p>\n

1999<\/strong><\/p>\n

Being Virtual<\/a> (review of Richard Sennett’s The Corrosion of Character<\/em>), Harvard Business Review<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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