Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010) and, most recently, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart (2025).
Nicholas Carr
Articles
Can the Internet Be Saved?
After troubleshooting Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir, it becomes clear that the internet’s flaws were there from the start.
Beautiful Lies: The Art of the Deep Fake
Nicholas Carr shows how Jonas Bendiksen’s beautiful photographs “open a door onto a weird and unsettling future.”
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
Whatever its imperfections, Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is an original and brilliant work, and it arrives at a crucial moment.
Can Journalism Be Saved?
Through its many voices, "Trump and the Media" makes a convincing case that journalism has sailed into dangerous straits.
A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess, and the Human Mind
Nicholas Carr contemplates AI and “Deep Thinking,” a memoir by chess master Garry Kasparov.
The Manipulators: Facebook’s Social Engineering Project
The revelation that Facebook manipulates user experience to study human behavior heralds a new stage in the history of the Internet.
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