The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google - Nicholas Carr

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

By Nicholas Carr

  • Release Date: 2009-01-19
  • Genre: Computers
3.5 Score: 3.5 (From 32 Ratings)

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“Magisterial…Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.” —Salon

Hailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning into a utility, and the effects of this transition will ultimately change society as completely as the advent of cheap electricity did. In a new chapter for this edition that brings the story up-to-date, Nicholas Carr revisits the dramatic new world being conjured from the circuits of the “World Wide Computer.”

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