In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams. Why should you stop what you're doing and read a[...]
An analysis of an evolving trend in computer-based business makes predictions about what will be its role in transforming economics and culture, in an account that evaluates how the shift from private computer systems to Internet-based networks has initiated a major revolution that will impact all c[...]
The New York Times bestseller that everyone is talking about . . .
âNicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.â âMichael Agger, Slate
âWitty, ambitious, and immensely readable, The Shallows actually manages to describe the weird, new, a[...]
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, the[...]
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 ou[...]
"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 how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacri[...]
What kind of world are we building for ourselves? That s the question Nicholas Carr tackles in this important, absorbing book. Digging behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, personalized apps and computerized medicine, Carr explores the hidden costs of allowing software to [...]
Shows how automation - in the form of decision-making algorithms - now permeates every aspect of our lives and the radical effects this is having on our ability to learn and make decisions. Rather than rejecting technology, the author argues that we must urgently rethink its role in our lives.[...]
Is the Internet making us stupid? In this new book, as incendiary as it is important, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is changing dramatically how we think, remember and interact.[...]
Tämä Nicholas Carrin kysymys kiteyttää yhden aikamme tärkeimmistä keskusteluista. Uhraammeko kykymme lukea ja ajatella syvällisesti, kun nautimme verkon hedelmistä? Tuleeko meistä pinnallisempia?Tässä kirjassa Carr tutkii internetin älyllisiä ja kulttuurisia vaikutuksia vakuuttavalla ta[...]
In this lucid and compelling look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation on the economy, Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to explain why computing is changing--and what it means.[...]