With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's
unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a
hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's
worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal
essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers 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 believe so fervently in computers and
data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools do not
make us all the next 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 political discourse.
When we expect technologies-designed for profit-to deliver a
paradise of prosperity and convenience, we have forgotten
ourselves. In response, Carr offers searching assessments of the
future of work, the fate of reading, and the rise of artificial
intelligence, challenging us to see our world anew. In famous
essays including "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and "Life, Liberty,
and the Pursuit of Privacy," Carr dissects the logic behind Silicon
Valley's "liberation mythology," showing how technology has both
enriched and imprisoned us-often at the same time. Drawing on
artists ranging from Walt Whitman to the Clash, while weaving in
the latest findings from science and sociology, Utopia Is Creepy
compels us to question the technological momentum that has trapped
us in its flow. "Resistance is never futile," argues Carr, and this
book delivers the proof.
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