Hes also a social media skeptic. One of his recent book recommendations was The Shallows, Nicholas Carrs examination of how the internet is turning our brains to mush. While many of his closest advisers are well-known Twitter combatants, Obama has consistently voiced skepticism about the partisan
Date: Nov 26, 2019
Category: U.S.
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Every company is a tech company now (yes, even Blue Apron)
This is what Nicholas Carr foretold in 2003 when he wrote an essay called "I.T. Doesn't Matter" -- he wasn't saying that information technology was useless. He was saying it was becoming essential that it would no longer provide any business advantage unless you were better at it than your competito
since I bought my first cellphone 15 years ago. Now I couldn't recall a single number, not even my mother's (sorry, mom). After reading Nicholas Carr's "The Glass Cage: Automation and Us," I not only long for the time I relied on that part of my brain, I'll be looking for ways to put it back to use.
"We have this abstract belief that privacy is important, but the way we behave online often runs counter to that," said Nicholas Carr, whose extensive writings about the Internet include the 2010 book, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains."
Date: Sep 03, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
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The Digital Public Library of America Opens its Doors
The complexity and difficulty of such an undertaking should not be underestimated, as our feature article The Library of Utopia by Nicholas Carr, published almost exactly a year ago, explains. The effort has been beset by legal, technical, and logistical difficulties, from the outset, the biggest
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, explores in his book how digital distractions could have a negative impact on our concentration, memory and comprehension.
Theres also the question if the expectations for Big Data run too high. Nicholas Carr points out an interesting section fromNassim Nicholas Talebs recent book Antifragile that runs counter to benefits that many perceive in analyzing huge amounts of data. Taleb argues that analyzing large amount
Date: Feb 08, 2013
Category: Sci/Tech
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Digital Books Becoming Mainstream, but Public Libraries Aren't Going Anywhere
According to Nicholas Carr, an American writer on technology, business and culture and a finalist for a 2011 Pulitzer Prize, It may be that e-books, rather than replacing printed books, will ultimately serve a role more like that of audio booksa complement to traditional reading, not a substitute.