Tag: Nicholas Carr

• Ursula Le Guin on the ‘media golem’

  A pox upon me for never having read Ursula Le Guin before she died last week. I’ll get right on that, as her reputation is high among many different kinds of readers. Before diving into her novels, though, I encountered her blog (an 88 year old blogging!) on which last year she posted “Constructing the Golem”, pretty…

  January 31, 2018

  America, Media, Politics, Technology

  Donald Trump, Nicholas Carr, Politico, social media, technology, Twitter, Ursula Le Guin

• Favorite Books of 2014

  My favorite books from 2014 are all nonfiction, a thoroughly unsurprising result of it being way easier for me to get through a 700-page historical tome than a 200-page novel. Sorry, novels: this year it was especially true that the truth is stranger and more fascinating than fiction. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us…

  January 16, 2015

  Books

  Akron, Deep, Five Came Back, freediving, James Nestor, Mark Harris, Nicholas Carr, Randall Munroe, review, The Glass Cage, The Hard Way on Purpose, What If

• The Glass Cage

  To never confront the possibility of getting lost is to live in a state of perpetual dislocation. If you never have to worry about not knowing where you are, then you never have to know where you are. —Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage One time the internet went down at the library and it was like the Apocalypse.…

  October 24, 2014

  Books, Libraries, Technology

  automation, GPS, Nicholas Carr, review, The Glass Cage

• The Glass Cockpit

  Is the Internet making us smarter or stupider? It’s a question Q the Podcast recently tackled in a lively and in-depth debate between lots of smart and interesting people. There is enough evidence to support both sides of the debate. But what I concluded after listening to the show was that for all of the…

  October 24, 2013

  Technology

  Nicholas Carr, Spider-Man