The Big Switch
Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Published on 19. January 2009
304 pages
978-0-393-06787-3 (ISBN)
Description
"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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Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and five other acclaimed books. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oregon.
Content
- Intro
- Also by Nicholas Carr
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue: A Doorway in Boston
- Part 1: One Machine
- 1. Burden's Wheel
- 2. The Inventor and His Clerk
- 3. Digital Millwork
- 4. Goodbye, Mr. Gates
- 5. The White City
- Part 2: Living in the Cloud
- 6. World Wide Computer
- 7. From the Many to the Few
- 8. The Great Unbundling
- 9. Fighting the Net
- 10. A Spider's Web
- 11. iGod
- Epilogue: Flame and Filament
- Afterword: Cloud Power
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Praise for The Big Switch
- Copyright
