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Articles by Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, which is “widely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement,” according the Christian Science Monitor. His earlier book, Does IT Matter?, published in 2004, “lays out the simple truths of the economics of information technology in a lucid way, with cogent examples and clear analysis,” said the New York Times. His new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, was published in 2010. Carr’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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The end of “disruption”

“The big, transformative changes in the industry — the shifts in the habits of readers and advertisers — happened years ago, and since then a kind of uneasy stability has taken hold.”

Nicholas Carr: 2012 will bring the appification of media

Versioning, the software business standby, is making its way into journalism’s business practices.

June 16, 2010

Agents of immediacy: Nick Carr on why journalists need to “teach people to pay attention again”