Superbloom
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
$30.39
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
18 July 2026
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324130543 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324130547 |
| Author: | Nicholas Carr |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 18 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 140mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“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 Journal
Nicholas Carr
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.
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