The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny

• ISBN: 0393062287
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.25"

Contents:
Part 1: One Machine
1. Burden's Wheel
2. The Inventor and His Clerk
3. Digital Millwork
4. Goodbye, Mr. Gates
5. The White City

Part 2: Living in the Cloud
6. World Wide Computer
7. From the Many to the Few
8. The Great Unbundling
9. Fighting the Net
10. A Spider's Web
11. iGod

Epilogue: Flame and Filament

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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