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

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

"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

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
Nicholas Carr
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.