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A freewheeling, sharpshooting indictment of your tech-besotted culture. Using a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery eye-sight of the technical future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced with a rest? Gathering a decade's worthwhile of content from his blog, Abrasive Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy provides an alternative history of the digital age, chronicling its roller-coaster crazes and crashes, its blind triumphs, and its unintended consequences. Carr's favorite targets are those zealots who imagine so fervently in personal computers and data that they get away from common sense. Cheap digital tools do not make people another Fellini or Dylan. Social networks, diverting as they may be, are not vehicles for self-enlightenment. And "likes" and retweets are not going to elevate politics discourse. When we expect technologies - designed for profit - to deliver a paradise of success and convenience, we have ignored ourselves. In response Carr offers searching assessments into the future of work, the fate of reading, and the rise of artificial cleverness, challenging us to see the world anew. In famous essays including "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Life, Liberty, and the Quest for Privacy", Carr dissects the reasoning behind Silicon Valley's "liberation mythology", displaying how technology has both enriched and imprisoned us - often at the same time. Drawing on musicians and artists which range from Walt Whitman to the Clash while weaving in the latest conclusions from knowledge and sociology, Utopia Is Creepy compels us to question the technical momentum that has captured us in its stream. "Resistance is never futile," argues Carr, which audiobook offers the proof.
