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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google was written by Nicholas Carr, the author of Does IT Matter? Switch is much like a “Does IT Matter” Part II, where Carr proposes that computing is becoming a utility much like electricity, something all around us we no longer have to think about. But unlike electricity, the computer grid may have ominous side affects. This book is like Ray Kurzweil on depressants. Not pretty. Yet Carr makes a lot of observations about a dark side of ubiquitous computing that are hard to argue against. 4-out-of-5 Nordic Track Stars. _____________________ p.11 Around a century ago, manufacturers no longer had to be in the power generation business. What happened to the generation of power at that time is...
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