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Rewiring Our Brains: Nicholas Carr

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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.

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Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has been a journalist 32 years, published 32 books and edited seven others.  His latest is book is Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket published in 2016 by Penguin Random House.

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 s... Read more

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