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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Nicholas Carr, PaperbackOriginal price was: $16.95.$14.41Current price is: $14.41.
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With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy is “Carr’s best hits for those who missed the last decade of his stream of thoughtful commentary about our love affair with technology and its effect on our relationships” (Richard Cytowic, New York Journal of Books).
Carr draws on artists ranging from Walt Whitman to the Clash, while weaving in the latest findings from science and sociology. Carr’s favorite targets are those zealots who believe so fervently in computers and data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools do not make us all the next Fellini or Dylan. Social networks, diverting as they may be, are not vehicles for self-enlightenment. And “likes” and retweets are not going to elevate political discourse. Utopia Is Creepy compels us to question the technological momentum that has trapped us in its flow. “Resistance is never futile,” argues Carr, and this book delivers the proof.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Nicholas Carr
Published: 09/12/2017
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393354744
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.00d
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Weight | 0.66 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8 × 5.5 × 1 in |
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