Nice post. I wonder about the same questions. I'm pretty sure Nicholas Carr is missing the boat with these statements, but I wonder if there's a deeper meaning. I work in technology. I love it and have since my youth. I often try to solve problems in the context of technology. However, despite over 30 years of technological advancement, has the human experience really changed? I don't know. There are plenty of problems that technology simply can't solve. The very fact that I'm able to comment here is certainly a weighs heavy for communication. But then there's the box below with the tag line, "this is an anti-spam measure" which remind me that this counter measure, also "counters" in heavy as well.