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Utopia Is Creepy – And Other Provocations

Gebonden Engels 2016 9780393254549
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With a 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 offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences. 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. When we expect technologies-designed for profit-to deliver a paradise of prosperity and convenience, we have forgotten ourselves. In response, Carr offers searching assessments of the future of work, the fate of reading, and the rise of artificial intelligence, challenging us to see our world anew. In famous essays including "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy," Carr dissects the logic behind Silicon Valley's "liberation mythology," showing how technology has both enriched and imprisoned us-often at the same time.
Drawing on artists ranging from Walt Whitman to the Clash, while weaving in the latest findings from science and sociology, 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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ISBN13:9780393254549
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:384
Verschijningsdatum:9-9-2016
Hoofdrubriek:Religie
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In de zomer van 2008 publiceerde Nicholas Carr zijn beruchte artikel 'Is google making us stupid?'. Sindsdien wordt hij gezien als een van de meest toonaangevende denkers op het gebied van de nieuwe media, met onder andere publicaties in The New York Times, Wired, Guardian, The New Republic, Financial Times, en Die Zeit. Van Carr verschenen eerder 'Does IT matter?' en 'The Big Switch' en hij is tevens eigenaar van de populaire weblog Rough Type. - Winnaar Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009, Best Technology Writing 2009 en Best Spiritual Writing 2010.

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