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The Last Humanist: Nicholas Carr on What the Digital Age Can't Replace

My review of Superbloom by Nicholas Carr

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Erik J Larson
May 11, 2025
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A broad, flat field full of colorful flowers

Hi everyone,

Nicholas Carr has a new book out: Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. I’ve followed Carr for years and was thrilled to write this review. I initially sent it to the editors at the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), but they’d already assigned the title to science writer Philip Ball. (Still—worth a shot: they’ve since i…

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