RaveThe Guardian (UK)Not an attempt to make evolution cuddlier and more palatable; rather, it is a corrective deeply informed by what we have learned since Darwin about how nature works. Written with immense charm and passion, and packed with eye-popping facts, it is also a paean to the wonders of nature and the value and urgency of preserving them.
RaveLos Angeles Review of BooksTakes the long view ... Carr is no conservative or Luddite: he sees, for example, how Gen Z social-media-speak is witty, inventive, fun. But it, too, is flattening ... The case Carr makes is compelling. Is there an antidote? He does not believe we can simply reshape and constrain the technologies. It is too late for that ... Shows us what is at stake.
