The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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The definitive guide to the cloud computing revolution.
Hailed as "the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement" (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switchmakes 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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