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"The web wasn’t corrupted by outside forces. The corruption was there from the start, latent in its design.”
Nicholas Carr on Tim Berners-Lee’s “This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web”: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"The assumption of an efficient marketplace of ideas rests on the ideal of a rational consumer of ideas, a Homo philosophicus who, like his cousin economicus, turns out to be a fictional character." - Nicholas Carr
@roughtype newcartographies.com/
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Last night at our San Francisco debate on Artificial Intelligence, Nicholas Carr argued: “The problem with AI isn’t that it encourages cheating; the problem is that it discourages learning.” Full video coming soon to the FP.com.
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"Efficiency might not, it turns out, bring about greater happiness."
@AbramEngen reviews Nicholas Carr's Superbloom, about the pitfalls of our technological age, in Arc Magazine:
arcmag.org/slow-down-you-mov…
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Join us Mon. April 14 for
"Why Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart"
Nicholas Carr with Audrey Borowski will
explore how, as communication become more mechanized, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony.
#Philosophy
thephilosopher1923.org/event…
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So excited for this.
Aravind Srinivas of @perplexity_ai and Fei-Fei Li
vs.
Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr
Will the truth survive AI?
May 15 in San Francisco.
Tickets here:
thefp.com/p/will-the-truth-s…
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Studies have shown that social media promotes lies and antipathy more effectively than truth and empathy. The result is “an information environment conducive to authoritarian movements and cults of personality”, writes Nicholas Carr in a new book econ.st/4kiUAgO
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The Tyranny of Now: The Tyranny of Now
There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult …. buff.ly/3PO2qRO
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Michael welcomes Nicholas Carr (@roughtype), author of "Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart," a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society.
Listen to the #bookclub #podcast here 🎧📖 loom.ly/Dfx1c6g
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In a new book, Nicholas Carr explores how tech optimists failed to foresee the downsides of faster, easier communication, such as factionalism, authoritarianism and radicalisation econ.st/42Fx6MN
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“When you speed up the exchange of messages and information beyond a certain point, you actually overwhelm the mind’s ability to make sense of it all in a deep way,” @roughtype tells Don Peck in Time-Travel Thursdays. theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
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"No person can be trusted to resist corruption if they cannot be held responsible for their actions." Philip Ball reviews Nicholas Carr’s "Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection are Pulling Us Apart." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"In 2016, it became ok to choose which reality we preferred." Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s "Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection are Pulling Us Apart" disturbingly compelling. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"When everything...exists as media content, as electromagnetic vibrations in a...system of communication, then reality itself becomes the pattern formed by those vibrations — a vibe, in our favored shorthand."
Nicholas Carr meditates on the word "vibe."
newcartographies.com/p/vibe-…
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In which I recommend essays by @manaafsari, @roughtype, @SarahSoltis02, @arutherfordNI, @petersavodnik, @jhensonpogue, and others.
In this week's Water Dipper, Jeff Bilbro recommends essays about media, meat, and now. buff.ly/3E8lqI4
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There's no time like the present to revisit Innis's warning: "Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult."
New from Nicholas Carr (@roughtype):
thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
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SUPERBLOOM by Nicholas Carr (1/28) appears in @nytimes's books to keep your eye on in January. Preorder it now to be the first to read this enlightening book on how media shapes society.
wwnorton.com/books/superbloo…
nytimes.com/2024/12/26/books…
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Nice piece from Nicholas Carr
@roughtype on little data in the @hedgehogreview
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We live in an age of abundant information. Nicholas Carr argues that the constant stream of detailed facts and metrics that pervade our lives is changing our relationship to reality and ourselves. hedgehogreview.com/issues/in…
