The Bigger Switch is my Linux Journal column on Nick Carr‘s The Big Switch. It concludes:
| I don’t see utopian ideals behind what Alvin Toffler called the Information Age (in The Third Wave, which came out in 1980). Rather, I see practical ones, modeled on the construction industry, complete with “architects”, “designers” and “builders”. The difference is in the materials. In the physical world, we are bound by the laws of physics and the periodic table. In the networked world, we are bound by what the human mind can produce. We have no equivalents of rock and wood, because our raw materials are far less limited and far more abundant than both. This creates new problems and opportunities in equal profusion. |
| But, for better and worse, the source is us. |
Bonus link: Nick on Google’s Chrome browser.
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