Nicholas Carr on How Technologies of Communication Tear Us Apart

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  Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.

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  I'm producer Leila Ishmael.

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  In this episode,

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  we dive deep into the hidden costs of digital connection with American journalist

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  and writer Nicholas Carr.

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  Carr is best known for his groundbreaking 2008 essay, is Google Making Us Stupid?

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  Which warned us about the effects of the Internet on our cognition

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  and laid the foundations for his New York Times best selling book,

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  the what the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

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  Carr is back with a new book titled Superbloom How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.

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  Joining him in conversation to discuss it is writer and researcher Adam McCauley.

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  Listen on to hear how the very technologies that promise to bring us closer together are actually driving us further apart.

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  Welcome to Intelligence Squared.

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  I'm your host, Adam McCauley.

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  I'm so pleased to welcome Nicholas to Intelligence Squared.

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  Thanks very much, Adam.

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  So you broke into the public consciousness, I would argue, almost too early with the shallows.

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  Back in 2011,

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  that book offered a prescient warning about the age of the Internet

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  and what it would mean for our lives.

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