Nick Carr: How many computers does the world need?
How many computers does the world need? Fewer than you think In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Watson's legendary misjudgment did not prove fatal to his company. When businesses began buying mainframes in large numbers in the early 1950s, he quickly steered IBM into the new business. The proliferation o
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog The amorality of Web 2.0
This post, along with seventy-eight others, is collected in the book Utopia Is Creepy. From the start, the World Wide Web has been a vessel of quasi-religious longing. And why not? For those seeking to transcend the physical world, the Web presents a readymade Promised Land. On the Internet, we’re all bodiless, symbols speaking to symbols in symbols. The early texts of Web metaphysics, many writte
Nicholas Carr: The net is being carved up into information plantations
Search at Google.com on evolution or Iraq or Aids or Gordon Brown, and the same site will appear at the top of the list of results: Wikipedia. Alter your search into one for John Keats or Muhammad Ali or Christianity or platypus or loneliness, and the same thing will happen. Pacific Ocean? Wikipedia. Catherine de Medici? Wikipedia. Human brain? Wikipedia. In fact, if you Google any person, place o
Michelin Gives Stars, but Tokyo Turns Up Nose (Published 2008)
Toshiya Kadowaki, a chef, says he turned down a Michelin listing because foreigners are not qualified to rate Japanese food.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times TOKYO � The Michelin guide recently ventured into Asia for the first time in its 108-year history to research and publish a Japanese-language guide to Tokyo restaurants. To gain credibility, it hired Japanese restaurant judges to work
Edge: TURING'S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson
My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. The mood was playful, yet there was a palpable reverence in the air. "We are not scan
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