{"id":42,"date":"2014-01-28T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:08:42","slug":"42-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling Author of Superbloom and The Shallows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Carr writes about the human consequences of technology. His books<\/a>, including the just published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart<\/a> <\/em>and the Pulitzer Prize finalist <\/span>The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/a><\/em>, <\/em>have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has recently been a visiting professor of sociology at Williams College, and earlier in his career he was executive editor of the <\/span>Harvard Business Review<\/em>. In 2015, he received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association. He writes the Substack newsletter <\/span>New Cartographies<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nicholas<\/a>A<\/span> New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller when it was first published in 2010 and now hailed as “a modern classic,” Carr’s\u00a0The Shallows<\/em> remains a touchstone for debates on the internet’s effects on our thoughts and perceptions. A second edition of The Shallows, <\/em>updated with a new chapter,\u00a0was published in 2020. <\/span>Carr’s 2014 book<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The Glass Cage: Automation and<\/a><\/span> Us<\/a><\/em>, which the New York Review of Books<\/em> called a “chastening meditation on the human future,” <\/span>examines the personal and social consequences of our ever growing\u00a0dependency on computers, robots, and artificial intelligence.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>His latest book, <\/span>Utopia Is Creepy<\/em><\/a>, published in 2016, collects his best essays, blog posts, and other writings from the past dozen years. The collection is “by turns wry and revelatory,” wrote\u00a0<\/span>Discover<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Carr\u00a0is also the author of two other influential books,\u00a0<\/span>The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2008), which the Financial Times<\/em>\u00a0called \u201cthe best read so far about the significance of the shift to cloud computing,\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Does IT Matter?<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2004).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Carr\u00a0has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The\u00a0Atlantic, <\/em>the Wall Street Journal, <\/em><\/em>the New York Times, <\/em>the Washington Post, <\/em>Wired, Nature, Politico, MIT Technology Review,<\/em>\u00a0and The New Atlantis<\/em>. His essays, including “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and “The Great Forgetting,” have been collected in several anthologies, including\u00a0The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best Spiritual Writing,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Best Technology Writing.<\/em> Before launching New Cartographies<\/em><\/a> in 2024, he wrote the popular blog Rough Type<\/em><\/a> for twenty years.<\/p>\n

In addition to speaking at many professional and academic events, Carr has appeared as a commentator on television and radio programs, including NPR’s All Things Considered<\/em> and OnPoint<\/em>, the PBS NewsHour<\/em>, MSNBC’s Morning Joe<\/em>, CBS Sunday Morning<\/em>, and the Colbert Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carr was born in Ohio and reared in Texas, Michigan, and Connecticut. He was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He now lives in western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

In the early 1980s, he was a founding member of the universally unnoticed punk band The Adrenalin Boys.<\/p>\n

Contact info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo: Scott Keneally.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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