{"id":1022,"date":"2008-01-02T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2008-01-02T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T16:08:10","slug":"into_the_cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Nodal man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new issue of Wired<\/em> features an interview<\/a> with me about The Big Switch<\/em> and, in particular, the broader implications of the arrival of our new World Wide Computer. The interview was conducted by Spencer Reiss. Here are a couple of excerpts:<\/p>\n

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Wired:<\/b> When does the big switch from the desktop to the data cloud happen?<\/p>\n

Carr:<\/b> Most people are already there. Young people in particular spend way more time using so-called cloud apps – MySpace, Flickr, Gmail – than running old-fashioned programs on their hard drives. What’s amazing is that this shift from private to public software has happened without us even noticing it …<\/p>\n

Wired:<\/b> Back to the future – HAL lives!<\/p>\n

Carr:<\/b> The scariest thing about Stanley Kubrick’s vision wasn’t that computers started to act like people but that people had started to act like computers. We’re beginning to process information as if we’re nodes; it’s all about the speed of locating and reading data. We’re transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring its way of thinking into us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elsewhere on the newsstand, the current issue of Fast Company<\/em> gives The Big Switch<\/em> a nice notice<\/a>, calling it a “must-read” for 2008 and, in a reference to Alvin Toffler’s much-discussed 1970 book<\/a>, describing it as “Future Shock<\/em> for the web-apps era.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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