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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
The Big Switch Rewiring the World from Edison to Google Author:Nicholas Carr ?Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today?s computing world.??SalonHailed 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 util... more »ity, 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.?« less