TechPoint Announces Summit Keynote Speaker

Inside INdiana Business (press release) - TechPoint’s 2010 Innovation Summit will feature iconoclastic technology writer Nicholas Carr as the keynote speaker for the annual event, which promotes and encourages high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship in Indiana. Carr has been called a leading and influential thinker by technology trade publications, and his latest book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, hit shelves earlier this month.

Carr has authored several influential books and his ideas have been featured in national publications such as The New York Times, Forbes and Wall Street Journal to name a few. His 2008 article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” caused a furor in the tech media when it appeared as a six page cover story in The Atlantic.

“Innovation starts with thinking differently about things we typically take for granted,” said Mark Hill, Chairman of TechPoint and co-founder of Collina Ventures. “Nick Carr certainly provokes us to think differently about issues in technology. In that sense, he’s a perfect keynote speaker for this year’s Summit.”