Nicholas G. Carr

Person · Open Library

Born

1959

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1959

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,962x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,887x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,406x

4. Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles

   · 1985 · cited 18,711x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,787x

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Quotes

• “Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.”
• “In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.”
• “By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”
• “...media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
• “What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.”

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