The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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- ISBN13: 9780393333947
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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“Future Shock for the Web-apps era…. Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too.”—Quick Company Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Huge 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 very much as cheap electricity did. The Huge Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the “World Wide Computer.” New for the paperback edition, the book now includes an A–Z guide to the companies leading this transformation.
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Don’t walk, run to your nearest bookstore to read Carr’s dazzling THE BIG SWITCH. If you can only read one book in 2008 this should be it. The writing is clean, pure as spring water and thoughtful. Carr makes the coming “information utility” simple for the layman to know. The description of the development of electricity and its impact on society is fascinating and lays the groundwork for the likely outcome of the information age over the next few decades. I loved this book which is a must for anyone appealing in the future of the information utility.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
If it is right, it is something that needs to be read by anyone interested in this meadow.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book starts off well, but it could make its point well with about 100 less pages.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Huge Switch is simple to read and, for the most part, entertaining. The first half of the book is coherent and provides a fun (but not new) comparison of the development of electrical distribution systems to the development of information distribution systems. I loved reading the first half of the book.
The second half of the book needs the attention of an editor with a sharp pencil and some technical knowledge. The equipment and challenges are trivialized and seemed to be open in an nearly random fashion. I did not delight in the second half of the book and wanted to send it back for a rewrite.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
very much like his additional book “Does IT Matter?”, this book provides an “insight” which is not much of an insight to start with.
Electrification was vital? Net too? Who would have known at this point.
Just as “Does IT Matter?” was seriously flawed (because it ignored a much more vital question “Does [your] business matter?”, “Rewiring” book is not asking questions that haven’t been questioned already.
Finally, this kind of wisdom is usually received from “experts” in the financial markets – after the fact.
Zero stars (I had to give it one star because zero stars wasn’t allowed).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5