The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

By N. Carr. 2008

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Cloud Computing and Information Policy: Computing in a Policy Cloud? (2008, background): “…issues raised by cloud computing, and technological futurists will focus on the utopian or dystopian possibilities inherent in the technology (i.e., Carr, 2008), there are a wealth of important social and policy questions raised by cloud computing, such as the following: • What expectations for…”
Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism (2017, background): “Nicholas Carr (2008), the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, calculated that maintaining an avatar in the Second Life virtual reality game requires 1,752 kilowatt hours of electricity per year.”
The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation? (2016, unknown): “On the opposite side, MTurk and other crowdsourcing platforms have been defined as the new sweatshops (Uddin, 2012; Zittrain, 2009), and analysed as new forms of encroachment and exploitation of labour (Carr, 2008; Deuze, 2007), underpaid free work (Kleemann et al.”
Privacy in the Digital Age: A Review of Information Privacy Research in Information Systems (2011, unknown): “Journal of Information Systems Security and privacy) (Adams and Dimitriou 2008; Basu 2006a; Basu 2007c; Basu 2007d; Basu 2008a; Basu 2005d; Basu and Chenoweth 2006b; Bhaskar 2005; Brehm and Gómez 2005; Campbell 1997; Cannoy et al. 2006; Carr 2009; Cavusoglu 2010; Chan et al. 2005a; Changchit 2007a; ”
Industry 4.0 - Potentials for Creating Smart Products: Empirical Research Results (2015, background): “The second large bouleversement was the replacement of steam by electricity [7].”
Integrated marketing communications: From media channels to digital connectivity (2009, background): “Nicholas Carr (2008) draws parallels between the Internet and the origins of the electricity grid.”
The Reservoir model and architecture for open federated cloud computing (2009, methodology): “The emerging Cloud Computing paradigm [2], as exemplified by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), represents a promising conceptual foundation for hosting and deployment of web-based services while theoretically relieving service providers from the responsibility of provisioning the computational”
The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the 'Sharing Economy' (2016, background): “xxxiv Very critical and pessimistic observers have defined crowd employment platforms as the new sweatshops (Uddin, 2012; Zittrain, 2009), and analysed them as new forms of encroachment and exploitation of labour (Carr, 2008; Deuze, 2007), underpaid free work (Kleemann et al.”
Ideological Segregation Online and Offline (2011, unknown): “Sunstein (2001), Kohut (2004), Von Drehle (2004), Carr (2008), and Friedman (2009), among others, ave argued that proliferation of news sources on the Internet may be increasing that isolation.”