Superbloom
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Will be published approx. on 5. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-324-13054-3 (ISBN)
Description
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, Nicholas Carr counsels, but it's not too late to change ourselves.
Reviews / Votes
"A Financial Times 'Best Summer Book of 2025 in Technology'" "The "superbloom" of flowers produced a superbloom of people, trampling the poppies, causing gridlock and creating a public-safety hazard. For Nicholas Carr, a thoughtful critic of technology and its consequences, all this is a metaphor for today's media-saturated world" -- The Economist "Carr, for his part, extols a 'more material and less virtual existence'... it's going to take wilful acts of sensory deprivation for us to come to our senses." -- The New York Times "The case Carr makes is compelling..." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Mr. Carr is a thoughtful analyst . . . We think being 'connected' to one another will produce feelings of connection. Mr. Carr shows again and again that it just ain't so." -- The Wall Street JournalMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
222 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-13054-3 (9781324130543)
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E-Book
01/2025
W. W. Norton & Company
€27.99
Available for download
Book
01/2025
WW Norton & Co
€25.00
Available immediately
Person
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and five other acclaimed books. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oregon.