Nicholas Carr: 10 books

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...

In De glazen kooi opent Nicholas Carr ons de ogen voor een van de belangrijkste trends van het moment: de automatisering van onze samenleving. De voordelen liggen voor de hand, denk aan zelfrijdende autos, medische robots en gespecialiseerde apps. We geven taken uit handen aan machines, die het vaak...

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture. 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,...

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day. In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and...

Faites donc ce petit test : prenez le temps de tranquillement lire ce livre... Sans aller surfer sur Internet. Vous n'y parvenez pas ? C'est que Nick Carr a raison : Internet a déjà modifié votre cerveau ! C'est bien sûr à une révolution technique et informationnelle que nous assistons...

“Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.”—Salon Hailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes...

Nicholas Carr buigt zich over over de langetermijneffecten van het internet. Gebruikmakend van nieuwe inzichten over de plasticiteit van het brein, de werking van ons geheugen en de manieren waarop we informatie verwerken, toont hij aan dat het internet niet alleen nuttig gereedschap is, maar ook bezig is onze identiteit en zelfs de structuur van onze hersenen te veranderen.

Ogni giorno navighiamo nel Web, passando da un sito all'altro, a caccia di notizie, documenti, video; controlliamo la nostra casella di posta elettronica, inviamo SMS e non dimentichiamo di inseguire emozioni sui social network più alla moda. La rete rende più rapido il lavoro e più stimolante...

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...

Over the last decade, and even since the bursting of the technology bubble, pundits, consultants, and thought leaders have argued that information technology provides the edge necessary for business success. IT expert Nicholas G. Carr offers a radically different view in this eloquent and explosive...