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Trenchant writing from a Pulitzer Prize finalist that dissects our obsession with technological utopia and looks towards a smarter future. Utopia Is Creepy is a sharp and often funny indictment of our tech-besotted culture, probing crucial issues from online surveillance to the state of public discourse.

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Through four books published over the last dozen years - Does IT Matter?, The Big Switch, The Shallows and The Glass Cage - Nicholas Carr has made his name as an incisive writer on our complicated relationship with technology. Utopia Is Creepy, a sharp and often funny indictment of our tech-besotted culture, collects essays drawn from Carrs popular blog Rough Type as well as seminal pieces that first appeared in The Atlantic, the MIT Technology Review and the Wall Street Journal, to provide an alternative history of our digital age over the last ten years. In well known essays such as Is Google Making Us Stupid?, The Library of Utopia or Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy, Carr lays bare the pitfalls alongside the benefits of the internet age, and dissects the philistinism and misanthropy that underlie Silicon Valleys liberation mythology. With probing assessments of some of the crucial issues of the day, from online surveillance to the state of public discourse, Carr once again puts his finger on todays most pressing issues.

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Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the bestseller The Big Switch and Does IT Matter? Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Carr has written for Wired, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Financial Times and others.

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