Description: The bestselling author of "The Big Switch" returns with an explosive look at technology's effect on the mind.
Brief description: Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and five other acclaimed books. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oregon.
Review Quotes: Nicholas Carr carefully examines the most important topic in contemporary culture--the mental and social transformation created by our new electronic environment. Without ever losing sight of the larger questions at stake, he calmly demolishes the clichés that have dominated discussions about the Internet. Witty, ambitious, and immensely readable, The Shallows actually manages to describe the weird, new, artificial world in which we now live.--Dana Gioia, poet and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts