Nicholas G Carr

Nicholas G. Carr is a globally recognised authority on technology, business, and culture. Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he has built a career exploring the intersection of technology and society, helping organisations understand the opportunities and challenges of the digital era.

Carr’s writing regularly appears in the Financial Times, Strategy & Business, and The Guardian, and he has also contributed to The New York Times, Wired, Business 2.0, The Banker, and Advertising Age, alongside his influential blog, Rough Type. He serves on the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s editorial board of advisors and has been recognised as a leading thinker in information technology by Optimize magazine and as one of the 100 most influential people in IT by eWeek.

Earlier in his career, Carr was a principal at Mercer Management Consulting, combining practical business experience with deep insight into technology’s transformative effects. He has been invited to speak at prestigious institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Wharton, the Kennedy School of Government, NASA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as well as at numerous corporate, professional, and industry conferences across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Carr is the author of several acclaimed books, including Does IT Matter?, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, and Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations.