The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
July 9th, 2010
Approximately two years ago, I reviewed Nicholas Carr’s book, The Big Switch. At the time, I applauded Carr’s creativity for examining the declining costs in computers, the increasing power of processing through “the cloud” and enormous server farms and his prediction that lower computing cost would enable and empower individuals, not large corporations, to create and control new businesses. Carr wrote that the situation was not unlike the era when the cost of electricity decreased with the development of public utilities. Read the rest of this entry »
