Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr

Author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and other acclaimed books. Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Nicholas Carr writes about the human consequences of technology. He is the bestselling author of acclaimed books such as The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Glass Cage: Automation and Us; and the forthcoming Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.

A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Carr writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2015, he received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association. In his Substack newsletter New Cartographies he explores the fraught intersection of technology and culture.