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Superbloom

How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

Nicholas Carr 2025 . Beaverton Lib 302.231 CARR

• Nicholas Carr

• 2004 book: Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
• 2008 book: The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
• 2010 book: The Shallows
• 2014 book: The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
• 2016 book: Utopia Is Creepy: and Other Provocations

• p1 Walker Canyon 70 miles (I10/I15) southeast of Los Angeles

  • 24yo vlog "influencer" Jaci Marie Smith posted photo among poppies hashtag #superbloom

  • "On March 1" (2019) hoards of others blocked traffic and trashed the site and nearby Lake Elsinore communities

  • Flowergeddon

• Well, duh, Crowds Are Stupid

• Many references to "our phones"

• p7 Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929

• p9 John Durham Peters 1958- Harold Innes 1909-1985 Marshall McCluhan 1911-1980 Neil Postman 1931-2003

• p15 Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

• p24 George Carlin's Filthy Words

• p33 Roy Olmstead wiretaps

• p36 Titanic 1912 barrage of fake radio signals from clueless amateurs

• p37 Radio Act of 1912

• p40 Radio Act of 1927 Federal Radio Commission

• p41 Federal Communications Commission 1934

• p43 National Association of Broadcasters

• p43 fairness doctrine 1949

• p47 Committee for National Morale 1940

• p54 Claude Shannon A Mathematical Theory of Communication 1948

  • "esoteric" sez nonscientist nonengineer Carr

• p59 J. C. R. Licklider 1962 foresaw internet and GUI

  • Arpanet/Internet and GUI

• no mention of The Mother of All Demos by Douglas Engelbart in 1968

  • OSU EE 1948, UCB MS 1953, PhD 1955, died of Alzheimer's in - I wish I had met him

• p65 Facebook News Feed

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