The Big Switch

  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    By Nicholas Carr

    Not long after completing the Harrison Street station, he began planning the construction of an even more ambitious plant, on Fisk Street. He wanted to install in that facility 5,000-kilowatt steam turbines, far larger than any ...

  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    By Nicholas G. Carr

    Chapter l Burden's Wheel n 18 51, in a field beside an ironworks in upstate New York, Henry Burden built a magnificent machine. Resembling a giant bicycle wheel, with dozens of thick iron spokes radiating from a massiv e central hub, ...

  • The Big Switch
    By Harry Turtledove

    In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 1938?

  • The big switch: die Vernetzung der Welt von Edison bis Google
    The big switch: die Vernetzung der Welt von Edison bis Google
    By Nicholas G. Carr

    Nicholas Carr beschreibt in dieser deutschen Übersetzung des amerikanischen Bestsellers die nächste IT-Revolution und dass dadurch immense Folgen auf unsere Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zukommen werden.

  • The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future
    The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future
    By Saul Griffith

    Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint - optimistic but feasible - for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment.

  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    By Nicholas Carr

    Offers predictions about the shift from private computer systems to Internet-based networks for computer-based businesses, and how the change will impact economics, culture, and society.

  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    By Nicholas Carr

    In a new chapter for this edition that brings the story up-to-date, Nicholas Carr revisits the dramatic new world being conjured from the circuits of the “World Wide Computer.”

  • The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future
    The Big Switch: Australia’s Electric Future
    By Saul Griffith

    Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint – optimistic but feasible – for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment.

  • The Big Switch
    The Big Switch
    By David Andrew Warner, J. V. McGee

    All they want to do is play âe¦ but there's always something getting in their way. In this first book in the series, Davey and his friends have a big game coming up against Shimmer Bay, their arch rivals in the local comp.