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Superbloom how technologies of connection tear us apart

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communicat...

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Main Author: Carr, Nicholas G., 1959- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025]
Edition:[Hardcover edition].
Subjects:
Internet > Physiological effect.
Internet > Psychological aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Digital media > Social aspects.
Social media and society.
Social media > Influence.
Technology and civilization.
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Table of Contents:
  • Poppies
  • Collapse. A more perfect liquefaction ; Privacy and the public interest ; The feed
  • The tragedy of communication. Fast talking, fast thinking ; Antipathies ; The democratization fallacy
  • Everything is mediated. The dislocated I ; Machines who speak ; World without world ; Dr. Johnson's rock.

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