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Nicholas G. Carr
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Nicholas G. Carr is an American journalist and writer whose nonfiction examines technology, business, culture, and society’s relationship with digital tools.
Biography
Nicholas G. Carr, born in 1959, is an American journalist and writer who publishes books and articles on technology, business, and culture. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Carr’s writing examines the complicated relationship between people and technology, including questions about privacy, reading, free choice, work, and play. His 2016 collection Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations brings together posts from his blog Rough Type and pieces published in The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, and The Wall Street Journal. These writings consider the promises associated with digital technology alongside its constraints and consequences.
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Books by Nicholas G. Carr
Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations
Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations collects Rough Type blog posts and published essays into a critical account of the digital age, with a new forward-looking essay. It examines how technology can both enrich and constrain people’s lives, addressing privacy, reading, free choice, and the future of work and play.