I usually review one book at a time in this blog. Not today. These three excellent books go so well together that I can’t help sharing them all at once. Each one examines an aspect of the web 2.0* social networking revolution (and the technology supporting it), and then projects into a not-too-distant future. That [...]
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The Big Switch (Nicholas Carr)
Posted in economics, technology, tagged business, computers, economics, electricity, utilities, web 2.0 on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
History has been known to repeat itself. In The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny [LibraryThing / WorldCat], Nicholas Carr identifies one trend that seems to be doing a rerun in our modern world. He connects the rise of electrical utilities in the late nineteenth century and the advent of Internet utilities during our own era. [...]
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