Nicholas Carr
American writer on technology and culture; author of The Shallows, a 2011 Pulitzer finalist.
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- Nicholas G.
- Carr is an American journalist and writer on technology, business and culture, born in 1959.
- He came to prominence with the 2003 Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter”, and his 2008 Atlantic cover story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” grew into The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
- His other books include The Big Switch (2008), The Glass Cage (2014) and Superbloom (2025).
- He was executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, wrote the blog Rough Type and now writes the newsletter New Cartographies.
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- Born
- 19591
- Books
- Does IT Matter? (2004), The Big Switch (2008), The Shallows (2010), The Glass Cage (2014), Utopia Is Creepy (2016), Superbloom (2025)1
- Pulitzer
- The Shallows: finalist, General Nonfiction, 20111
- Essays
- “IT Doesn’t Matter” (Harvard Business Review, 2003); “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (The Atlantic, 2008)1
- Editing
- Former executive editor, Harvard Business Review1
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