The big switch : rewiring the world, from Edison to Google / Nicholas Carr.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009Description: 288 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393333949
- 9780393333947
- 0393062287
- 9780393062281
- 303.4834 22
- QA76.9.C66 C38 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.4834 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A457141B |
Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.
Prologue : A doorway in Boston -- Once machine. Burden's wheel ; The inventor and his clerk ; Digital millwork ; Goodbye, Bill Gates ; The White City -- Living in the cloud. World wide computer ; From the many to the few ; The great unbundling ; Fighting the net ; A spider's web ; iGod -- Flame and filament.
Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The effects of this transition will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer." --from publisher description.
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