Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for political eclectics.

I'm Ravi Gupta.

And today I talk to Nicholas Carr, who is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

And he's also written for other acclaimed books.

And today we're going to talk about his newest book called Super Bloom, How Technologies of Connection

Terrace Apart.

He's a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review,

and he writes for Atlantic, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal. And Super Bloom,

this is a book where I think I first heard about this in a Derek Thompson piece in the Atlantic,

and basically this is all about, it's half history of communications technologies,

but really a diagnosis of the pathologies of

modern society and our dependence on these technologies. And we get into the question of, what do we

do about this age of digital distraction, this age of inundation, of disaggregation, division?

And there are not easy answers here, but we try to grapple. of inundation, disaggregation, division.

And there are not easy answers here, but we try to grapple with them.

We talk about both from the policy perspective what to do about these technologies and whether there is something to be done and then at the individual level.

I think you're going to love it.

And for those of you who want to get involved and

send in voicemails, especially on this topic today, like, I would love to hear about anything

you're doing that's working or not working in the area of digital distraction. You could send

in voicemails to 3212.200,000, or send in emails at lost debate at the branchmedia.org. Let's jump in.

Nicholas, welcome to the podcast. Thanks very much. Well, I'm here in Palm Springs, California,

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