The Big Switch Rewiring The World From Edison To Google
Future shock for the web-apps era. Compulsively readableāfor nontechies, too. Āfast company building on the success of his industry-shaking does it matter?
Nicohlas carr returns with the big switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. 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 veiw of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the world wide computer. New for the paperback edition, the book now incldues an aāz guide to the companies leading this transformation.