Contents:
Preface: The Great Debate
1. Technological Transformations
The Rise of a New Business Infrastructure
2. Laying Tracks
The Nature and Evolution of Infrastructural Technologies
3. An Almost Perfect Commodity
The Fate of Computer Hardware and Software
4. Vanishing Advantage
Information Technology's Changing Role in Business
5. The Universal Strategy Solvent
The IT Infrastructure's Corrosive Effect on Traditional Advantages
6. Managing the Money Pit
New Imperatives for IT Investment and Management
7. A Dream of Wonderful Machines
The Reading, and Misreading, of Technological Change
Notes and Bibliography
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is one of the leading Internet intellectuals in the United States and an astute observer of the World Wide Web and its role in business today. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he is the author of Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage and, most recently, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, Wired, and many other publications.
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