Carr is an American writer, editor, and professor whose work focuses on Internet technologies and their effects on society and individual psychology. Carr is a graduate of Harvard and Dartmouth, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a winner of the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, a visiting professor of sociology at Williams College, a member of Encyclopaedia Britannica's editorial board, and a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.&nbsp; In addition to The Shallows, Carr has also written books on technology and business strategy (Does IT Matter?), cloud computing (The Big Switch), and artificial intelligence (The Glass Cage: Automation and Us). In 2016, Carr published a collection of his essays, articles, and blog posts from across his career titled Utopia Is Creepy. Carr critiques contemporary developments in Internet <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Literary Device" href="https://www.supersummary.com/discourse-in-literature-definition-examples/">discourse</a> on his blog, Rough Type.

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McLuhan (1911-1980) was a Canadian media theorist who coined the phrase “the medium is the message” in his seminal work, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and the term “global village” in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. McLuhan’s critiques of electronic media focused on radio and television; however, he theorized about a future evolution of electronic media that would be an extension of consciousness, subsuming all other technologies—a description eerily similar to the Internet.

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