Monday, March 23rd, 2026
Superbloom Prologue, Chp.1, Chp. 2 Summary – Josie
Nicholas Carr opens up his 2025 piece Superbloom with a metaphor comparing the boom in communication technology that we see to a superbloom of tulips in California. As humans, we are constantly receiving and emitting signals to one another, and while the thrill of this new kind of communication technology was prevalent at the beginning, we are now facing some unintended consequences. Carr introduces us to Charles Horton Cooley, an American sociologist from the mid-1800s. Cooley understands that communication is the explanation for how societies evolve. The way that we communicate determines the ways that we think and act. As […]