Internet as utility?

摘要

Nicholas Carr enjoys annoying information technologists. His first book, Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business School Press), looked into the maelstrom of the digital revolution and yawned. His second, The Big Switch, now concedes that IT might matter after all, but mostly for the wrong reasons. Computing, Carr argues, will become a boring and regulated utility like electricity, and along the way it will destroy privacy, fracture communities, diminish culture, promote oppression and maybe subjugate the human race to artificial intelligence. Small wonder that the technology magazine Wired calls Carr "high-tech's Captain Buzzkill".