Superbloom

How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

17 July 2026

Territory Rights — Worldwide.

Description

From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society

With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the self in a time of radical dislocation. It may be too late to change the system, Nicholas Carr counsels, but it’s not too late to change ourselves.

Reviews

"The “superbloom” of flowers produced a superbloom of people, trampling the poppies, causing gridlock and creating a public-safety hazard. For Nicholas Carr, a thoughtful critic of technology and its consequences, all this is a metaphor for today’s media-saturated world" — The Economist

"Carr, for his part, extols a ‘more material and less virtual existence’… it’s going to take wilful acts of sensory deprivation for us to come to our senses." — The New York Times

"The case Carr makes is compelling..." — Los Angeles Review of Books

"Mr. Carr is a thoughtful analyst . . . We think being ‘connected’ to one another will produce feelings of connection. Mr. Carr shows again and again that it just ain’t so." — The Wall Street Journal

"A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 in Technology"

Also By: Nicholas Carr

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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Paperback, 2020
New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

"This is a book to shake up the world." —Ann Patchett
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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E Book, 2020
New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

"This is a book to shake up the world." —Ann Patchett
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
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Paperback, 2017
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Nicholas Carr
Hardback, 2016
A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
Nicholas Carr
E Book, 2016
Trenchant writing from a Pulitzer Prize finalist that dissects our obsession with technological utopia and looks towards a smarter future.