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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Nicholas Carr
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Description for Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Hardcover. A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PDR; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 33. Weight in Grams: 686.
With a 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, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences. Carr's favorite targets are those zealots who believe so fervently in computers and data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools do not make us all the next Fellini ... Read more
With a 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, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences. Carr's favorite targets are those zealots who believe so fervently in computers and data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools do not make us all the next Fellini ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
686g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393254549
SKU
V9780393254549
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About Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Glass Cage, among other books. Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he has written for The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Wired. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Reviews for Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
The prescient Nicholas Carr punches a hole in Silicon Valley hubris.
Rana Foroohar - Time Carr, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, takes on modern life's short attention spans and worship of the superficial in a ... rapid-fire volley of ideas deceptively designed to engage at a depth greater than 140 characters. By turns wry and revelatory, and occasionally ... Read more
Rana Foroohar - Time Carr, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, takes on modern life's short attention spans and worship of the superficial in a ... rapid-fire volley of ideas deceptively designed to engage at a depth greater than 140 characters. By turns wry and revelatory, and occasionally ... Read more