Nicholas G. Carr

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Nicholas Carr (1959) is the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (W.W. Norton, 2008) and of Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business School Press, 2004). The former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he has written articles for the New York Times, the Financial Times, Wired, The Guardian, and many other publications. His popular blog, Rough Type, can be found at roughtype.com, and his home page can be found at nicholasgcarr.com. Nick has lectured at MIT, Harvard, NASA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as well as at many corporate and professional events throughout the world."

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A little more signal, a lot more noise

I don't fully understand this excerpt from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's forthcoming book Antifragile, but I found this bit to be intriguing: The more frequently you look at data, the more noise you are disproportionally likely to get (rather than the valuable part called the signal); hence the higher the noise to signal ratio. And there is a confusion, that is not psychological at all, but inherent... read more »

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Books by Nicholas G. Carr

Average rating: 3.77 · 3,269 ratings · 798 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains 3.80 avg rating — 2,610 ratings — published 2010 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny 3.69 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Does It Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage 3.57 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Il lato oscuro della Rete. Libertà, sicurezza, privacy 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Aitī Ni Okane O Tsukau Nowa Mō Oyamenasai by Nicholas G. Carr, 清川幸美 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Managing Difficult People by Nicholas G. Carr, Suzy Wetlaufer, Harvard Business School Press (Compililation) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	The Digital Enterprise: How to Reshape Your Business for a Connected World 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	Business And The Internet: Business Fundamentals As Taught At The Harvard Business School 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	IT in 2018: From Turing’s Machine to the Computing Cloud 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Stop what you're doing and read this by Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen (Contributor), Zadie Smith (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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“The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn’t feel like that at all. We don’t feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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“We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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