Nicholas Carr Biography

Nicholas Carr writes about technology and culture. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us which examines the personal and social consequences of our ever growing dependency on computers robots and apps. His previous work The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times bestseller. His new book Utopia Is Creepy will be published in the summer of 2016. Nicholas is also the author of two other influential books The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google (2008) which the Financial Times calls the best read so far about the significance of the shift to cloud computing and Does IT Matter? His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He has written for The Atlantic the Wall Street Journal the New York Times Wired Nature MIT Technology Review and many other periodicals. His essays including Google Making Us Stupid? andThe Great Forgetting have been collected in several anthologies including The Best American Science and Nature Writing The Best Spiritual Writing and The Best Technology Writing. In 2015 he received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association.

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