Tag Archives: Nicholas Carr

Cognitive Surplus and The Shallows

By Michael Becker | Published: July 13, 2010
I am cur­rently read­ing Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky. I’m about a third of the way through it, and I hope to post a few thoughts here when I have time to set them in electrons. I also bought The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, which I will read imme­di­ately after Shirky’s book. I imag­ine that [...]
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Notes on Nicholas Carr

By Michael Becker | Published: September 26, 2009
Notes on a February 2009 Nicholas Carr article.
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Google as the news industry’s middle man

By Michael Becker | Published: April 12, 2009
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was sup­posed to directly con­nect peo­ple — buy­ers and sell­ers, read­ers and writ­ers, etc. — and elim­i­nate the mid­dle man. In real­ity, the mid­dle man is more impor­tant than ever, and the biggest mid­dle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
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Is Google making us ask unanswerable questions?

By Michael Becker | Published: August 17, 2008
British neu­ro­sci­en­tist Baroness Greenfield points out that pre­scrip­tions for drugs like Ritalin and diag­noses of ADHD are on the rise. She cor­re­lates that with an increase in com­puter use over the past decade, asks a few open ended ques­tions and implies that com­puter use is rot­ting children’s brains. I don’t doubt that com­put­ers will change [...]
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