Sunday Reruns

A Brief History of Educational Machinery

One revolution after another.

Mar 22 • Nicholas Carr

Flame and Filament

The deathliness of progress.

Mar 1 • Nicholas Carr

I Am a Data Factory (and So Are You)

The metaphors that confine us.

Nov 2, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

What the internet did to our brains.

Aug 31, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

The Medium Is the Medium

Jul 27, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

The Original Chatbot

On Joseph Weizenbaum and Eliza.

Jun 1, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

Either you're on or you're off.

Apr 20, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

What's gained and what's lost with automation.

Mar 2, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

In the Kingdom of the Bored, the One-Armed Bandit Is King

Loving the interface.

Feb 9, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

Smartphones Are Hot

They're also cool.

Jan 19, 2025 • Nicholas Carr

The Arc of Innovation Bends toward Decadence

Why our inventions seem so small.

Dec 15, 2024 • Nicholas Carr

The Love that Lays the Swale in Rows

Good tools enlarge the world. Bad ones diminish it.

Nov 24, 2024 • Nicholas Carr

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