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Review of Carr's The Big Switch

By Stuart Buck

Nicholas Carr has written an excellent book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google,* which will be released on Jan. 7, 2008. The grand theme is how the world will change due to the ever-more-pervasive presence of computers. Under that grand theme, the book is then divided into two main parts. In the first half of the book, Carr contends that the information technology departments of large businesses are about to become obsolete, as are large software companies like Microsoft (one chapter title: "Goodbye, Mr. Gates" -- I wonder how many readers will be aware of the allusion . . .). This is because computers are about to undergo the same transformation that happened with electricity a hundred years ago, an interesting story that Carr recounts...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on December 03, 2007 (boomark / email).