{"id":31,"date":"2014-01-28T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-01-28T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:55:59","slug":"31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37 alignleft\" alt=\"me\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/me-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/me-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/me.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. His most recent book,\u00a0<em>The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,<\/em>\u00a0is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller. Nick is also the author of two other influential books,\u00a0<em>The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google<\/em>\u00a0(2008) and\u00a0<em>Does IT Matter?<\/em>\u00a0(2004). His books have been translated into 25 languages.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Nick has been a columnist for\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0in London and has written for\u00a0<em>The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The New Republic, The Financial Times, MIT Technology Review<\/em>, and \u00a0other publications. His essay \u201cIs Google Making Us Stupid?\u201d has been collected in several anthologies, including\u00a0<em>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009, The Best Spiritual Writing 2010,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Best Technology Writing 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nick is a former member of the Encyclopedia Britannica&#8217;s editorial board of advisors, was on the steering board of the World Economic Forum&#8217;s cloud computing project, and was a writer-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley. He writes the popular blog <em>Rough Type<\/em>. Earlier in his career, he was executive editor of the\u00a0<em>Harvard Business Review.<\/em>\u00a0He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English and American Literature and Language, from Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. His most recent book,\u00a0The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,\u00a0is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller. Nick is also the author of two other influential books,\u00a0The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google\u00a0(2008) and\u00a0Does IT Matter?\u00a0(2004). His books have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4iw66-31","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholascarr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}