Carr, Nicholas G.,  1959- <br/><br/>
The big switch :  rewiring the world, from Edison to Google / 
Nicholas Carr. 
 - 288 pages ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393333949 9780393333947 0393062287 9780393062281 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Computers and civilization<br/>Information technology--Social aspects<br/>Technological innovations<br/>Internet.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA76.9.C66  / C38 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.4834