Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What we talk about when we talk about singularity
June 01, 2008 The Singularity, that much-anticipated moment, or nano-moment, when our once-tractable silicon servants rocket past us, intellectually speaking, in a blur not unlike the one you see when Scotty activates the Enterprise's warp drive on Star Trek, pausing only (we pray) to allow us to virtualize our mental circuitry and upload it into their capacious memory banks (watch for the 2035 la
Understanding Amazon Web Services
There are two ways to look at Amazon.com: as a retailer, and as a software company that runs a retailing application. Both are accurate, and in combination they explain why Amazon, rather than a traditional computer company, has become the most successful early mover in supplying computing as a utility service. For Amazon, running a cloud computing service is core to its business in a way that it
The Great Unbundling: Newspapers & the Net | Britannica Blog
To launch the Britannica Blog’s “Newspapers & the Net Forum,” we begin with an excerpt from The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr—a prominent writer and lecturer on new technology, publisher of the blog “Rough Type,” and a member of Britannica’s Board of Editorial Advisors. Some of the participants in this week-long forum will be responding directly to Nick’s c
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Wikipedia's new slogan
