The big switch : rewiring the world, from Edison to Google / Nicholas Carr.

By:

Carr, Nicholas G, 1959- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009Description: 288 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0393333949
9780393333947
0393062287
9780393062281

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.4834 22

LOC classification:

QA76.9.C66 C38 2009

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index.

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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