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Writers

Nicholas Carr

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

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By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.

Nicholas Carr Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 2019 15min Permalink

Arts

The Library of Utopia

How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.

Nicholas Carr Technology Review Jun 2012 15min Permalink

Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

What fragmented reading experiences do to neural circuitry. (It’s not good.)

Nicholas Carr Wired Jun 2010 10min Permalink