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Glass Cage Where Automation Is Taking Us by Nicholas Carr
Category: Languages and Reference
In The Glass Cage, leading commentator on technology and culture Nicholas Carr exposes our profound dependence on digital automation to make our most important decisions and the radical effects this is having on our minds and lives. In May 2009 an Airbus A330 passenger jet equipped with the latest 'glas ...Show more
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
Category: Culture
In this eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and its consequences, Nicholas Carr explains why computing is changing and what this means for all of us. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by ...Show more
The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway by Nicholas Carr
Category: Popular Science
In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn and solve problems. In May 2009 an Airbus A330 passenger jet equipped with the l ...Show more
The Shallows - How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Category: Science
The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.
The Shallows : How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understand ...Show more
The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the way we Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Category: Personal Development
In this extraordinary new book, as incendiary as it's important, Nicholas Carr argues that the internet is changing dramatically how we think, remember and interact.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Category: Reference
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about h ...Show more
Utopia Is Creepy And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr
Category: Popular Science
With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy is "Carr's best hits fo ...Show more
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr
Category: Philosophy and Religion
With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers an alternative ...Show more
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