Working for a frozen water company must have seemed like a sensible career move in New England during the 1850s. During the age of steam, America’s ice traders carved 10 million tons of the stuff out ...

Kicking up the debate on the future of IT another notch is Nicholas G. Carr’s sure-to-be-controversial contention in this month’s Harvard Business Review that the pervasiveness of IT will soon make it ...

“Superbloom,” by Nicholas Carr, and “The Sirens’ Call,” by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to handle the infinite scroll of the information age. Nonfiction “Superbloom,” by ...

In his 2010 book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” Nicholas Carr argued that our immersion in digital media is rewiring the way we think, turning us into distracted skimmers ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Does information technology matter anymore? In a sharp debate that marked the end of Day 1 of Computerworld‘s Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference, author Nicholas G. Carr asserted ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. “Over the past few years I’ve had an ...