Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324064617
• ISBN13: 9781324064619
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages