Nicholas Carr

Writer

Nicholas Carr is the author of Utopia Is Creepy (2016), the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Shallows (2010), and The Glass Cage (2014). His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Nature and MIT Technology Review. He blogs at RoughType.com.

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Written by Nicholas Carr

A person in a wingsuit flying over a mountainous landscape with winding roads and lush green vegetation below.

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Future of technology

Humans have long wished to fly like birds: maybe we shall

Nicholas Carr

Photo of a person on a stage with a large screen above showing a stylised map of the world, highlighted with blue and white lines.

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Information and communication

The world wide cage

Technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency

Nicholas Carr