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The big switch : rewiring the world, from Edison to Google
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The big switch : rewiring the world, from Edison to Google

Author: Nicholas G Carr
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not only changed how businesses operated but also brought the modern world into existence. Today a similar revolution is under way. Companies are dismantling their private computer systems and tapping into rich services delivered over the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Nicholas G Carr
ISBN: 9780393062281 0393062287
OCLC Number: 154706854
Description: vii, 278 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Burden's wheel --
The inventor and his clerk --
Digital millwork --
Goodbye, Bill Gates --
The White City --
World Wide Computer --
From the many to the few --
The great unbundling --
Fighting the net --
A spider's web --
iGod --
Flame and filament.
Other Titles: Rewiring the world, from Edison to Google
Responsibility: Nicholas Carr.
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Computing is turning into a utility. The shift is remaking the computer industry, bringing competitors like Google to the fore and threatening traditional stalwarts like Microsoft. This book looks at  Read more...

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as incontrovertible as geometry, but...

by cornish@wsu.edu (WorldCat user published 2010-06-30) Very Good Permalink

Nicholas Carr's The Big Switch describes the emergence of cloud services, drawing parallels between information technology and the development of the electric power grid a century earlier.  There's no question that his argument is compelling - one need only use Amazon Web Services'...
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