Summary: Is the internet changing human intelligence? Yes, says technology author Nicholas Carr -- and not in a good way. In an interview with Google's Peter Norvig, Carr shares his theory on the Internet as the culprit against civilization's progress. This program was recorded in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California, on June 23, 2010. Visit http://FORA.tv to view full-length video of any program featured in this podcast. For more topics on technology, visit http://fora.tv/topic/technology. Nicholas Carr writes: "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski," in his Atlantic Monthly cover story, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" He shares his theory on the Internet as the culprit against civilization's progress, making the case that the it has diminished our ability to think deeply. - Commonwealth Club of California Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, which is "widely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement," according the Christian Science Monitor. His earlier book, Does IT Matter?, published in 2004, "lays out the simple truths of the economics of information technology in a lucid way, with cogent examples and clear analysis," said the New York Times. His latest book is, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Carr's books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Peter Norvig is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc he was Director of Search Quality, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002-2005, and has been Director of Research from 2005 on.
