March 30, 2011 - Jimmy Wales & Nicholas Carr at DePauw to Discuss Role of Technology in Our Lives

Increasingly, wherever people go, they can be reached by phone, get an e-mail or text message, and even search the Internet. The ubiquity of devices and inundation of information in today's world has "a deep influence on the way we think," Nicholas Carr told an audience at DePauw University. "And what it's doing is essentially bringing us into a state of perpetual distraction."

Carr, author of 'The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains', debated Jimmy Wales, founder of the world's fifth most popular website, Wikipedia, in "Wired... and Weary?". Presented by the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series, the program drew a crowd of about 900 people to Kresge Auditorium in DePauw's Green Center for the Performing Arts.

Nicholas Carr delivering an Ubben Lecture