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Nicholas G. Carr is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. Through his blog "Rough Type," Carr has been a critic of technological utopianism and in particular the populist claims made for online social production.

Carr wrote the following:
*IT Doesn't Matter (article, Harvard Business Review, 2003): argued that the strategic importance of information technology in business has diminished as IT has become more commonplace, standardized and cheaper.
*Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage (book, 2004)
*The End of Corporate Computing (article, MIT Sloan Management Review, 2004): argued that in the future companies will purchase information technology as a utility service from outside suppliers.
*The Amorality of Web 2.0 (blog essay, 2005): criticized the quality of volunteer Web 2.0 information projects such as Wikipedia and the blogosphere and argued that they may have a net negative effect on society by displacing more expensive professional alternatives.
*The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (book, January 2008): examines the economic and social consequences of the rise of Internet-based computing, comparing the consequences to those that occurred with the rise of electric utilities in the early 20th century.
*Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our brains (article, The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008): highly critical of the changes the Internet has caused in the way the modernized world thinks (that the Internet possibly has detrimental effects on cognition that diminish our ability to concentrate and do intense reading of texts).

==Links==
*Blog: http://www.roughtype.com
*Homepage http://www.nicholasgcarr.com
*Wikipedia article on Carr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Carr
*Wikipedia article on "Google Making Us Stupid": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F
*The Amorality of Web 2.0: http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php
*Is Google Making Us Stupid?: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

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