Doomscrolling, algorithms, artificial intelligence—these concepts have become so familiar to us and such a part of our everyday monotony that they’ve become jokes. But Nicholas Carr isn’t laughing.

As for the name, my absolute favourite is that of the fictional search engine used by the crime-writer aunts in the British ...

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