Tag: Superbloom (Norton 2025)

Illuminated cityscape on digital network, futuristic scene

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Erik J. Larson
Date
May 18, 2025

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships, Social Media, Surveillance, Virtual Reality

Tagged
Charles Horton Cooley, Harold Innis, Lewis Mumford, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, Shoshana Zuboff, Superbloom (Norton 2025), Surveillance Capitalism (Public Affairs 2019), Susan Sontag, The Big Switch (Norton 2008), The Glass Cage (Norton 2014), The Shallows (Norton 2010), Walter Lippmann}

The Last Humanist: What the Digital Age Can’t Replace

_{My review of Superbloom by Nicholas Carr, perhaps the last critic standing, with thoughts on some of his earlier books} _{Erik J. Larson
May 18, 2025

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Arts & Culture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships, Social Media, Surveillance, Virtual Reality}

Unlike the surveillance capitalism crowd, Carr doesn’t just rail against Big Tech’s designs; he interrogates our willing participation.