TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carr,Nicholas G.
TI  - The big switch: rewiring the world, from Edison to Google 
SN  - 0393333949
AV  - QA76.9.C66 C38 2009
U1  - 303.4834 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Internet
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -