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    Our Heads in the Cloud

    Mar 02, 2020 2 minutes

    NICHOLAS CARR is the best-selling author of several books about technology and its consequences. A new, expanded edition of his 2010 book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will be published this spring. We asked him to pose four questions about how the Internet will affect our future.

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