The Big Switch - Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google - Softcover

Carr, Nicholas

 
9780393345223: The Big Switch - Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Softcover
ISBN 10: 039334522X ISBN 13: 9780393345223
Verlag: John Wiley, 2013

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"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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and four 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.

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"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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"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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Verlag
John Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039334522X
ISBN 13 
9780393345223
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
306
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