Nicholas Carr says programming the World Wide Computer will program our lives. He warns that algorithms now decide what profits go where and what gets published, shaping what we read. He also notes that skimming has become the main way we take in information, changing how our brains work.
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Nicholas G. Carr is an American journalist and writer who writes about technology, business and culture.
About Nicholas Carr
His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.