Nicholas Carr
@roughtype
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This is the dormant X account of the writer Nicholas Carr. To follow my work, please visit: https://t.co/XnsfrUJTHC.
New England
Joined March 2009
My new book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, is out and available everywhere! Read a preview at After Babel.
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RT @ImNotOwned: Finished reading Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom this weekend (highly recommend) and I have never seen this Andreessen quote bef….
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"Armed with generative AI, a B student can produce A work while turning into a C student."
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"The real threat AI poses to education isn’t that it encourages cheating. It’s that it discourages learning."
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RT @TheFP: Last night at our San Francisco debate on Artificial Intelligence, Nicholas Carr argued: “The problem with AI isn’t that it enco….
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"Zuckerberg's botverse continues the social-media model, with nonhuman disembodied voices replacing human disembodied voices. Once you separate voice from being, the next step is to mass-produce voice as a commodity, to offer friendship as a service."
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RT @ReligPolitics: "Efficiency might not, it turns out, bring about greater happiness.". @AbramEngen reviews Nicholas Carr's Superbloom, ab….
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RT @philosopher1923: Join us Mon. April 14 for. "Why Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart". Nicholas Carr with Audrey Borowski will .ex….
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"There’s a reason so much narrative art is now set in fantasy worlds or in the past: there are no phones there."
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RT @bariweiss: So excited for this. Aravind Srinivas of @perplexity_ai and Fei-Fei Li. vs. Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr. Will the trut….
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RT @TheEconomist: Studies have shown that social media promotes lies and antipathy more effectively than truth and empathy. The result is “….
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RT @PhilosophyMttrs: The Tyranny of Now: The Tyranny of Now.There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media the….
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Join Christine Rosen and me for a Zoom conversation about Superbloom tonight. Free and open to all. The sponsor, @FamilyActionNet, is giving away books to 150 randomly selected attendees. Details and signup:
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"In a world overfilled with stuff, a captivating interface is the perfect consumer good. It packages the very act of consumption as a product."
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"We viewed the information age as an age of reason, governed by the scientist and the mathematician. We’re now coming to realize it’s altogether different — an enchanted age, governed by the myth-maker and the mystic."
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Tomorrow at noon EST @NewAmerica is hosting an online discussion of my new book Superbloom between me and the writer and tech-policy analyst Akash Kapur. Free and open to all. Register here:
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Very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to Jon Haidt's After Babel.
Today at Nicholas Carr gives us a preview of his new great new book Superbloom. On how the quantity and efficiency of online communication can cut off the normal process by which relationships deepen into friendships. @roughtype .
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RT @smerconish: Michael welcomes Nicholas Carr (@roughtype), author of "Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart," a bracin….
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RT @TheEconomist: In a new book, Nicholas Carr explores how tech optimists failed to foresee the downsides of faster, easier communication,….
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