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Thursday 23 September
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
It doesn’t come as news that we’re living in an age where technology is producing profound changes in the ways we live and communicate, remember and socialise.
One of the world’s most ground-breaking and thought-provoking writers on technology and its impacts talks to Gideon Haigh. The celebrated journalist and author of The Shallows, presents his arguments about how the internet’s pervasive influence is fostering ignorance.
Featuring
Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for forty-two years, contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, and published fifty-two books. He and Peter Lalor have run the website and podcast Cricket Et Al ...
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google.
He contributes to the New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times and Wired. He was formerly the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, where he specialised in editing and writing articles on business strategy, information technology, and the internet.