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I Am a Data Factory (and So Are You)
The metaphors that confine us.
 • Nicholas Carr
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the internet did to our brains.
 • Nicholas Carr
The Medium Is the Medium
AI ascends.
 • Nicholas Carr
The Original Chatbot
On Joseph Weizenbaum and Eliza.
 • Nicholas Carr
The Bus
Either you're on or you're off.
 • Nicholas Carr
On Autopilot
What's gained and what's lost with automation.
 • Nicholas Carr
In the Kingdom of the Bored, the One-Armed Bandit Is King
Loving the interface.
 • Nicholas Carr
Smartphones Are Hot
They're also cool.
 • Nicholas Carr
The Arc of Innovation Bends toward Decadence
Why our inventions seem so small.
 • Nicholas Carr
The Love that Lays the Swale in Rows
Good tools enlarge the world. Bad ones diminish it.
 • Nicholas Carr
Question Marks of the Mysterians
On unknowable unknowns.
 • Nicholas Carr
What Is It Like to Be a Smartphone?
Large language models reflect our own idea of intelligence back to us. A true AI would be inscrutable.
 • Nicholas Carr
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