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    It's really a good overview of how our technology is changing. I predict in the near future, it will seem absurd to maintain your own data center.
    
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    interesting read so far. now everything is "in the cloud" as the book starts off talking about moving away from physical hardware onsite.
    
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    Some of the concepts are already main stream but an interesting read all the same to understand how we got here and how technology will evolve.
    
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"Future Shock for the Web-apps era.... Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too."—Fast Company Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter? Nicholas Carr returns with The Big Switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The effects of this transition will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer." New for the paperback edition, the book now includes an A–Z guide to the companies leading this transformation. .

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