Recommending @Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Exodus
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Found at Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Exodus.
Has it begun?
James Sturm, the cartoonist, can’t take it anymore, “it” being the Internet:
Over the last several years, the Internet has evolved from being a distraction to something that feels more sinister. Even when I am away from the computer I am aware that I AM AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER and am scheming about how to GET BACK ON THE COMPUTER. I’ve tried various strategies to limit my time online: leaving my laptop at my studio when I go home, leaving it at home when I go to my studio, a Saturday moratorium on usage. But nothing has worked for long. More and more hours of my life evaporate in front of YouTube … Essential online communication has given way to hours of compulsive e-mail checking and Web surfing. The Internet has made me a slave to my vanity: I monitor the Amazon ranking of my books on an hourly basis, and I’m constantly searching for comments and discussions about my work.
To be continued at
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/04/exodus.php
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Posted on 2010/04/09, in Front Office and Customer Service Operations, Knowledge management, Performance management, Social CRM and social business and tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Front Office and Customer Service Operations, Knowledge management, Performance management, GET BACK ON THE COMPUTER, James Sturm, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas G. Carr, Nick Carr, Social CRM and social business, Vision, visionaries, vision things, trends, YouTube. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
With HCL ISD coming up with their innovative platform MyCloud, Nicholas G. Carr (aka Nick), the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, anticipates more such innovations out of intense competition. View HCL Technologies’ VP – Marketing Anubhav Saxena asking him about the development of an economic progress model for the suppliers of Cloud Computing. “Cloud is going to turn a lot of basic infrastructure into a raw commodity,” nodded Nick while replying to Anubhav. http://bit.ly/kKjWJF
Observing great progress in the development of Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, and computing utility services, Nicholas G. Carr (aka Nick), the author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google talks about the vision of CIOs and the like for Cloud Computing in the video. See Anubhav Saxena, VP — Marketing, HCL Technologies exploring the scope of building a common workable system to meet ever increasing demands in End User Computing with him. http://bit.ly/kSVRSA
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