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How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
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Jonathan Todd Ross
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Nicholas Carr
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From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society.
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 communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.
A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how “digital crowding” erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds and distort our perceptions, and how advances in AI are further blurring the already hazy line between fantasy and reality. Even as Carr shows how tech companies and their tools of connection have failed us, he forces us to confront inconvenient truths about our own nature. The human psyche, it turns out, is profoundly ill-suited to the “superbloom” of information that technology has unleashed.
With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the self in a time of radical dislocation. It may be too late to change the system, Carr counsels, but it’s not too late to change ourselves.
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Utopia Is Creepy
- And Other Provocations
- De: Nicholas Carr
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences.
De: Nicholas Carr
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The Extinction of Experience
- Being Human in a Disembodied World
- De: Christine Rosen
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard to disagree with
- De ChrisM. en 04-29-25
De: Christine Rosen
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Mindmasters (Anna Caputo version)
- The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
- De: Sandra Matz
- Narrado por: Anna Caputo
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important book!! Very well written!! Empowering!
- De onili en 02-03-25
De: Sandra Matz
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The Sirens' Call
- How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
- De: Chris Hayes
- Narrado por: Chris Hayes
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they’re us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoughtful and captivating
- De Nancy en 02-02-25
De: Chris Hayes
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The Attention Merchants
- The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
- De: Tim Wu
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials, and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the "attention merchants", contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions, but the end result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention.
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It's Been Sold
- De Mr. Ess en 10-24-16
De: Tim Wu
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Cool
- How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
- De: Salvatore Basile
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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The air conditioner is often hailed as one of the modern world's greatest inventions—yet nearly as often blamed for global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits; saved countless lives, and caused countless deaths. First appearing in 1902, when Willis Carrier, an engineer barely out of college, developed the "Apparatus for Treating Air," everyone assumed it would instantly change the world. But the story of air conditioning and its rise to ubiquity is far from simple.
De: Salvatore Basile
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Against Platforms
- Surviving Digital Utopia (Activist Citizens Library)
- De: Mike Pepi
- Narrado por: Tim Andres Pabon
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for transforming our society. With these powerful new tools, the thinking went, we would be free to live our best lives, connected to our communities in ways full of infinite potential. A quarter of a century on, this form of utopianism seems like a cruel mirage. So what happened? In Against Platforms, technologist and creator Mike Pepi lays out an explanation of what went wrong—and a manifesto for putting it right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relevant, clear, and accessible
- De books&ennui en 04-09-25
De: Mike Pepi
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Employment Is Dead
- How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work
- De: Deborah Perry Piscione, Josh Drean
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Business is on the cusp of an inevitable and profound transformation. The tools of tomorrow will amplify human potential, from collaborating in virtual spaces through digital avatars, to managing transactions transparently on the blockchain. Those who embrace these technologies—and the manner in which people want to work—will unleash unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation. Conversely, those who remain tethered to outdated work patterns risk losing out on the best talent, and even becoming obsolete.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AI is Rapidly Changing Today’s Workforce
- De Hayley en 02-18-25
De: Deborah Perry Piscione, y otros
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- De: Neal Baer
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can—and should—they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by CRISPR technology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex issues of science & ethics well explained!
- De OpenTheBooks&Listen en 03-03-25
De: Neal Baer
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Random Acts of Automation
- How to Fight Back When Automation Threatens Your Work, Your Life, and Everything You Do
- De: Craig LeClair
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Random Acts of Automation dives deep into the hidden consequences of our rapid automation, examining the forces that will reshape the current workforce. This book focuses on real people—fast-food workers, warehouse staff, customer service agents, even lawyers and tech professionals—all facing the impact of automation. In its chapters, you will find practical solutions to your workplace concerns about AI. This isn't just about understanding your current job; it's about seeing where automation will take you and how you can thrive.
De: Craig LeClair
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Public Opinion
- De: Walter Lippmann
- Narrado por: John Clickman
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion (1922) argues humans can't fully grasp complex issues. We rely on simplified ideas (stereotypes) and media portrayals ("pseudo-environments") to form opinions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lippmann is an impressive social scientist.
- De Anonymous User en 12-29-24
De: Walter Lippmann
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Countdown
- The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
- De: Sarah Scoles
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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In Countdown, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers a different atomic reality: the nuclear age's present. Drawing from years of on-the-ground reporting at the nation's nuclear weapons labs, Scoles interrogates the idea that having nuclear weapons keeps us safe, deterring attacks and preventing radioactive warfare. She deftly assesses the existing nuclear apparatus in the United States, taking listeners beyond the news headlines and policy-speak to reveal the state of nuclear-weapons technology.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It was just not interesting.
- De Anonymous User en 02-02-25
De: Sarah Scoles
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Outrage Machine
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—and What We Can Do About It
- De: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Narrado por: Justin Price, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news, and we're reacting faster and less rationally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Annoying analogous stories
- De Lindsay en 07-06-24
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Intertwined
- From Insects to Icebergs
- De: Michael Gross
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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In nature, everything is connected: from microscopic bacteria and soaring trees to animals struggling for survival amid thriving humanity. Yet many of today's toughest problems, from environmental destruction to divisive politics, stem from fundamental disconnections. In Intertwined, Michael Gross explains how the natural world can be a powerful reminder of our interdependence.
De: Michael Gross
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Psychopolitics
- Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
- De: Byung-Chul Han
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 2 h y 49 m
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Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Jargon and ambiguity are not honest intellectualism
- De carsonwelker en 10-18-24
De: Byung-Chul Han
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Technopoly
- The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- De: Neil Postman
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Error in recording
- De D. Cassidy en 04-30-15
De: Neil Postman
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- Matthew T
- 02-06-25
Great book!
I enjoyed the context needed to fully understand and grasp the complex issue technology plays in human communication. It is very frightening and worrisome when it comes to AI in the role that it plays in our world moving forward. Nicholas Carr did an amazing job laying the cards down.
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- Classical Ideas Podcast
- 02-14-25
Humanity is really doomed, eh?
Too long. Lot of chapters drag. Otherwise really solid bit of information about why we are the way we are.
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