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Nicholas Carr
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Is AI the Paperclip?
Meta promotional image illustrating size of its proposed Hyperion data center.In a paper published in 2003, the philosopher Nick Bostrom sketched out a thought experiment aimed at illustrating an existential risk that artificial intelligence might eventually pose to humanity. An advanced AI is given, by its human programmers, the objective of optimizing the production of paperclips. The machin
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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2010
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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2008
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25 editions
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
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2014
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40 editions
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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
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Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
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2004
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17 editions
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
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2016
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Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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2008
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Building Bridges: Essays on Business, Technology and Innovation
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2011
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Digital Enterprise : How to Reshape Your Business for a Connected World (A Harvard Business Review Book)
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2001
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IT in 2018: From Turing’s Machine to the Computing Cloud
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“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“We become, neurologically, what we think."(33)”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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