J. D. Salinger, Nicholas Carr, and Dartmouth

If you're involved with business and technology, Nicholas Carr is probably one of those fellows you have some knowledge of.   A Dartmouth graduate, he's also the former editor of Harvard Business Review, and a prolific author.  Two articles he's famous for:
Additionally, his recent book The Big Switch, has been a huge hit, and he has another one coming out this year entitled The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

 
 
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I just heard the sad news that J. D. Salinger has died. He was 91. I went to school at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, which is just a few miles north of Cornish, New Hampshire, where Salinger lived. During the summer between my junior and senior year, I had a job at the circulation desk at the Dartmouth library. I was working one morning when my boss tapped me on the shoulder and motioned with his head over to the side of the desk. I just caught a glimpse of a tall, slender, slightly stooped man going through...