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Nick Carr - March 20 @ 7:00pm

This Cultural Arts Series event is open to the public and completely free. This important presentation and Q&A discussion focuses on the intersection of technology and culture and its effects on our thoughts and perceptions. You will learn vital and relevant information on the personal and social consequences of our ever growing dependency on computers, robots, and apps on you and your family.

After registering, you will receive an email confirmation with your ticket information. Please bring your confirmation with you on the evening of the performance, seating is general admission. The event should last for approximately an hour and a half.

The John Davies Theater at the Center for the Arts is located at 10931 NE 6th Avenue, Miami, FL 33161 for mapping purposes.
Nick Carr is a compelling writer and speaker whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and culture. A journalist by trade, he is the author of the acclaimed book The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us (2014), which examines the personal and social consequences of our ever-growing dependency on computers, robots, and apps.

His previous work, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times bestseller. His most recent book, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016) uses a collection of Carr’s seminal essays to further explore the Internet’s impact on society.

Carr is also the author of two other influential books, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008), which the Financial Times calls “the best read so far about the significance of the shift to cloud computing,” and Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (2004). His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Carr has written for The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Wired, Nature, and MIT Technology Review, among others. His essays, including “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and “The Great Forgetting,” have been featured in several anthologies, including The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best Spiritual Writing, and The Best Technology Writing. In 2015, he received the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity from the Media Ecology Association.

Carr is a former member of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors, was on the steering board of the World Economic Forum’s cloud computing project, and was a writer-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley’s journalism school. He also maintains the popular blog Rough Type.

Earlier in his career, he served as executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.
Carr holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English and American Literature and Language, from Harvard University.
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