American writer on technology and culture, author of The Shallows (2010), which grew out of his 2008 essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and argues that the internet weakens our capacity for deep reading.
尼克 (Níkè) is the standard rendering of 'Nick' - 尼 ('ni') + 克 ('k'/'kè'). 卡尔 (Kǎ'ěr) handles 'Carr' / 'Carl' - 卡 ('ca') + 尔 (the catch-all '-r/-l' phonetic). The middle dot separates given name from surname in foreign-name conventions.