Nicholas Carr’s latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, is a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Mr. Carr is also the author of the 2008 bestseller The Big Switch, which ranked #4 on Newsweek’s 2009 list of 50 Books to Read Now, and of the influential 2004 book Does IT Matter? He wrote the celebrated and much-anthologized essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and he has also contributed to the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, Wired, The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Futurist, Strategy & Business, and other periodicals