Location Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Nicholas Carr is an American author who writes books and articles on technology and culture. Carr has written articles for The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Wired, Nature, MIT Technology Review, and several other periodicals. He also writes for the blog Rough Type. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five
languages.
Carr is the author of The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Does IT Matter?, and The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. Previously, Carr was an executive editor of Harvard Business Review, a former member of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors, a writer-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley’s journalism school, and a founding member of Connecticut punk band The Adrenaline Boys. He was also on the steering board of the World Economic Forum’s cloud computing project.
Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in english and american literature and language from Harvard University.