博客來一起瞭解我們可以如何為自己做出選擇，
有意識地強化人與人之間的真實連結，
不再被各式螢幕所操控。
科技的進步，使聯繫變得更加便利，從十九世紀以來，從電報、電話到網路，人們歷經了通訊的大躍進，但人與人之間的聯繫，確實是越便利越好嗎？我們該如何與科技保持友善、但不過度沉溺的最佳關係？
暢銷書《網路讓我們變笨？》作者、科技記者尼可拉斯‧卡爾（Nicholas Carr），在本書提出強烈警示，指出社交媒體正以驚人的速度席捲社會。社群媒體令人成癮的機制和背後的公司，掌控了個人與社會，造成災害性的影響…… 我們需要意識到，更頻繁的溝通，不一定能帶來更佳的溝通效果。本書探究了人類的溝通方式和心理學，主張當代的社群媒體助長了偏執、焦慮和派系衝突。當使用者每天花在螢幕的時間越來越長，許多人──尤其是青少年，逐漸失去了參與實體活動的能力與意願，而社交和生活經驗的匱乏，將使人們在面對真實世界時更加惶惶不安，讓憂鬱、焦慮與悲觀的情緒以前所未有的速度和規模，籠罩整個社會。虛擬世界究竟是逃離現實壓力的避風港，還是囚禁人心的巨大牢籠？作者呼籲使用者為自己做出改變，有意識地強化人與人間的真實連結，重拾人類感知、探索真實世界的必要能力。(文/博客來編譯)
From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us.
A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how ＂digital crowding＂ erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds and distort our perceptions, and how advances in AI are further blurring the already hazy line between fantasy and reality. Even as Carr shows how tech companies and their tools of connection have failed us, he forces us to confront inconvenient truths about our own nature. The human psyche, it turns out, is profoundly ill-suited to the ＂superbloom＂ of information that technology has unleashed.
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, Carr counsels, but it’s not too late to change ourselves.
