Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr appears in the following:

McLuhanisms, 50 Years Later

Friday, October 17, 2014

Brooke speaks to Nicholas Carr about how Marshall McLuhan's theories have held up, 50 years later.

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What Are We Giving Up for the Convenience of Technology?

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Factory robots, self-driving cars, and digitized medicine make our lives easier. On the other hand, they might be stealing our souls.

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New Tech City: Online Education and Paying for College

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The credit rating agency Moody's revised its outlook for the whole U.S. higher education sector from "stable" to "negative" in a report released last week.

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On Cloud 1010110

Friday, July 06, 2012

Last Friday, a thunderstorm in Virginia temporarily crippled part of Amazon’s ‘cloud’ computing service. After a series of back-ups failed, popular sites like Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram were unavailable for several hours. Bob speaks with Nicholas Carr about the benefits and risks of cloud computing.

 

Latin Playboys - Crayon Sun

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Thinking Through the Web

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Nicholas Carr, journalist and author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains talks about the interaction of the brain with technology, an issue he first raised in The Atlantic article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

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Google=Stoopid?

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, talks about piece in the latest Atlantic Monthly, Is Google Making Us Stupid?.

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