No corporate computing system, not even those operated by big companies, can match the efficiency, speed, and flexibility of plants such as Google's. One analyst estimates that Google can carry out a computing task for one-tenth of what it costs a typical company. Full Story »
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Theoretically the story is convincing, but there is little to back up the ascertion that what seems likely will in fact take place on arevolutionary basis of a sea change - computing could as well remain largely as it has been previous to Google.
This essay is largely based on Carr's new book, and hence he is by no means a neutral party in this issue. I found this informative, though some big claims about the effects of this computing revolution (e.g. "growing concentration of wealth in a small slice of the population.") are made without evidence.
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