{"id":3027,"date":"2013-03-04T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2013-03-04T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:08:17","slug":"the-bigger-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"The bigger switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, my book about cloud computing and its consequences, <em>The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google<\/em>, will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of its publication. (It&#8217;s remarkable to think that in 2008 the term &#8220;the cloud&#8221; had yet to enter the public mind; much has changed in those five years.) To mark the occasion, W. W. Norton will be releasing a second edition of the book, complete with a new concluding chapter that brings the story up to date. The new edition is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/039334522X\/routyp-20\">available now<\/a> for preorder through Amazon. Here&#8217;s the cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bigswitch21.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3031\" alt=\"bigswitch2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bigswitch21.jpg?resize=490%2C714&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"490\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bigswitch21.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bigswitch21.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring, my book about cloud computing and its consequences, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of its publication. (It&#8217;s remarkable to think that in 2008 the term &#8220;the cloud&#8221; had yet to enter the public mind; much has changed in those five years.) To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}