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ROUGH TYPE | Nicholas Carr's blog
Nicholas Carr's blog
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About | ROUGH TYPE
Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by me, Nicholas Carr. It’s mainly about technology, culture, and economics, though it wanders into other areas at times. It was founded…
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June | 2023 | ROUGH TYPE
At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much to connect Meta’s $500 Quest 3 face strap-on for gamer-proles with Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro face tiara for elite beings of a hypothetical nature, but th...
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August | 2022 | ROUGH TYPE
“Liquid Death”: Whenever the metaverse gets rebranded into something more consumable, I would suggest that for its new name. It’s edgy, it’s memorable, and it hits the bullseye.
Liquid Death, the edgy...
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Write-only | ROUGH TYPE
Alan Jacobs: Digital textuality offers us the chance to restore commentary to its pre-modern place as the central scholarly genre. Recent technologies enable a renewal of commentary, but struggle t…
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e-textbooks | ROUGH TYPE
Because the horse is not dead, I feel I’m allowed to keep beating it. So: Another study of student attitudes toward paper and electronic textbooks has appeared, and like earlier ones — see here, here,...