Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

By Nicholas G. Carr

Categories: Computers & Technology, Politics & Social Sciences

This collection gathers more than a decade of Nicholas Carr's blog posts, essays and reviews on technology and culture. Carr challenges the utopian claims of Silicon Valley and examines how social media, smartphones, automation and the internet affect attention, memory and society. The book also includes aphorisms and a glossary, written with wit and skepticism about the promises of technology.

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• Shane Parrish: “Nicholas Carr has been on my must-read list since his book The Shallows drew me into the way he writes. Utopia is Creepy gathers a decade’s worth of posts and essays from Carr’s Blog (RoughType.com).”