2010 Presenters
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology for many periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Financial Times, and Die Zeit, and has been a columnist for The Guardian and The Industry Standard. His much-discussed essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?," which appeared as the cover story of the Atlantic Monthly's “Ideas” issue in the summer of 2008, has been collected in three popular anthologies: The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best Technology Writing, and The Best Spiritual Writing.
Carr is the author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, which is "widely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement," according the Christian Science Monitor. His earlier book, Does IT Matter?, published in 2004, "lays out the simple truths of the economics of information technology in a lucid way, with cogent examples and clear analysis" (New York Times). His latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, argues that the Net is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher.
LINKS:
Official web site for The Shallows
Carr's famous article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Interview with Carr about Google and Apple
Review of The Shallows by the Technology Liberation Front
