The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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Don’t walk, run to your nearest bookstore to read Carr’s dazzling THE BIG SWITCH. If you can only read one book in 2008 this should be it. The writing is clean, pure as spring water and thoughtful. Carr makes the coming “information utility” simple for the layman to understand. The description of the development of electricity and its impact on society is fascinating and lays the groundwork for the likely outcome of the information age over the next few decades. I enjoyed this book which is a must for anyone interesting in the future of the information utility.
Rating: 4 / 5
If it is true, it is something that needs to be read by anyone interested in this field.
Rating: 5 / 5
very much like his other book “Does IT Matter?”, this book provides an “insight” which is not much of an insight to begin with.
Electrification was important? Net too? Who would have known at this point.
Just as “Does IT Matter?” was seriously flawed (because it ignored a much more important question “Does [your] business matter?”, “Rewiring” book is not asking questions that haven’t been asked already.
Finally, this kind of wisdom is usually received from “experts” in the financial markets – after the fact.
Zero stars (I had to give it one star because zero stars wasn’t allowed).
Rating: 1 / 5
This book starts off well, but it could make its point well with about 100 less pages.
Rating: 3 / 5
Big Switch is easy to read and, for the most part, entertaining. The first half of the book is coherent and provides a fun (but not new) comparison of the development of electrical distribution systems to the development of information distribution systems. I enjoyed reading the first half of the book.
The second half of the book needs the attention of an editor with a sharp pencil and some technical knowledge. The technology and challenges are trivialized and seemed to be presented in an almost random fashion. I did not enjoy the second half of the book and wanted to send it back for a rewrite.
Rating: 2 / 5