Nicholas G. Carr

Expanding on an article that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the best-selling author of The Big Switch discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.

What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

The Shallows

A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.

And Other Provocations

Utopia is Creepy

An analysis of an evolving trend in computer-based business makes predictions about what will be its role in transforming economics and culture, in an account that evaluates how the shift from private computer systems to Internet-based networks has initiated a major revolution that will impact all components of society. 25,000 first printing.

Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

The Big Switch

"Heute schon gegoogelt? Im Durchschnitt sind die Deutschen etwa zweieinhalb Stunden täglich online. Neuesten Studien zufolge, so zeigt Bestsellerautor und IT-Experte Nicholas Carr, bewirkt bereits eine Onlinestunde am Tag erstaunliche neurologische Prägungen in unserem Gehirn. Wer das Internet nach Informationen, sozialen Kontakten oder Unterhaltung durchforstet, verwendet, anders als beim Buch- oder Zeitunglesen, einen Großteil seiner geistigen Energie auf die Beherrschung des Mediums selbst. Und macht sich um die Inhalte, buchstäblich, keinen Kopf. Die Folge: Im Internetzeitalter lesen wir oberflächlicher, lernen wir schlechter, erinnern wir uns schwächer denn je. Von den Anpassungsleistungen unseres Gehirns profitieren nicht wir, sondern die Konzerne, die mit Klickzahlen Kasse machen. In seinem neuen Buch verbindet Carr, zwanzig Jahre nach Entstehung des World Wide Web, seine medienkritische Bilanz mit einer erhellenden Zeitreise durch Philosophie-, Technologie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte - von Sokrates' Skepsis gegenüber der Schrift, dem Menschen als Uhrwerk und Nietzsches Schreibmaschine bis zum User als Gegenstand aktueller Debatten und Studien. Und er vermittelt - jenseits von vagem Kulturpessimismus - anhand greifbarer Untersuchungen und Experimente, wie das Internet unser Denken verändert." -- Herausgeber.

... und was macht mein Gehirn solange? - Wie das Internet unser Denken verändert

Wer bin ich, wenn ich online bin ...

Katarzyna Rojek

jak internet wpływa na nasz mózg

Płytki umysł

N.G. Carr

An IT expert argues that the strategic importance of IT has decreased over time and lays out a new agenda for IT management, examining implications for business strategy and organization.

Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage

Does IT Matter?

Les systèmes automatisés ont envahi notre quotidien via les applications pour smartphones, les GPS, les objets connectés, les robots ou drones domestiques - et bientôt les voitures sans conducteur. Chaque jour plus innovantes, ces technologies se proposent de soulager notre esprit, de nous épargner des efforts inutiles et de supprimer frictions et ralentissements dans nos vies. Censée alléger le travail des ouvriers et accroître les gains de productivité, l'automatisation a été introduite dans les manufactures pendant la révolution industrielle. Grâce à l'irrésistible essor de la robotique et de l'informatique, elle n'a cessé de se développer, d'abord dans l'industrie puis dans tous les domaines : aviation, finance, architecture, design, ressources humaines, médecine, justice, enseignement... En s'appuyant sur des exemples concrets et des études scientifiques diverses, Nicholas Carr démontre que notre dépendance accrue aux systèmes automatisés n'est pas sans danger. En faisant de moins en moins appel à nos sens, à notre expérience et à nos facultés intellectuelles, nous risquons de perdre notre autonomie, nos savoir-faire et notre pouvoir de décision. C'est pourquoi il est urgent de nous opposer à l'automatisation intégrale de la société et de remettre en cause le primat de la technologie sur l'humain.

Critique de l'automatisation de la société

Remplacer l'humain

How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

Atrapados: Cómo las máquinas se apoderan de nuestras vidas

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

How to Reshape Your Business for a Connected World

The Digital Enterprise

Analyse van de invloed van het toenemende internetgebruik op het functioneren van de hersenen.

hoe onze hersenen omgaan met internet

Het ondiepe

Over the last decade, and even since the bursting of the technology bubble, pundits, consultants, and thought leaders have argued that information technology provides the edge necessary for business success. IT expert Nicholas G. Carr offers a radically different view in this eloquent and explosive book. As IT's power and presence have grown, he argues, its strategic relevance has actually decreased. IT has been transformed from a source of advantage into a commoditized "cost of doing business"--with huge implications for business management. Expanding on Carr's seminal Harvard Business Review article that generated a storm of controversy, Does IT Matter? provides a truly compelling--and unsettling--account of IT's changing business role and its leveling influence on competition. Through astute analysis of historical and contemporary examples, Carr shows that the evolution of IT closely parallels that of earlier technologies such as railroads and electric power. He goes on to lay out a new agenda for IT management, stressing cost control and risk management over innovation and investment. And he examines the broader implications for business strategy and organization as well as for the technology industry. A frame-changing statement on one of the most important business phenomena of our time, Does IT Matter? marks a crucial milepost in the debate about IT's future. An acclaimed business writer and thinker, Nicholas G. Carr is a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Nicholas G. Carr

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