Nicholas Carr on the terrifying future of computing

Nicholas Carr is high tech's Captain Buzzkill -- the go-to guy for bad news. A former executive editor of Harvard Business Review, he tossed a grenade under big-budget corporate computing with his 2004 polemic Does IT Matter? (Answer: Not really, because all companies have it in spades.) Carr's new book, The Big Switch, targets the emerging "World Wide Computer" -- dummy PCs tied to massive server farms way up in the data cloud. In this Q & A, Wired asked Carr why he finds the future of computing so scary.

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