--- description: Carol Becker is the dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and author of Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Carol Becker ## Carol Becker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Carol Becker is the dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and author of_ [Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594515972/?tag=timecom-20). ## Carol Becker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jan 20, 2016 ### [Technology Is Destroying Our Inner Lives](https://time.com/4186034/technology-and-our-inner-lives/) "As a result of our 'always-on' ethos, we have neither time nor space within which to lose ourselves... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/4186036/","name":"Carol Becker"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/4186036/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/4186036/"},"name":"Carol Becker","jobTitle":null,"description":"Carol Becker is the dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and author of Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production.","url":"https://time.com/author/4186036/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```