Just as companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid some hundred years ago, today it's computing that's turning into a utility. The effects of this transition will ultimately change society as profoundly as cheap electricity did. The Big Switch provides a panoramic view of the new world being conjured from the circuits of the "World Wide Computer." --from publisher description

Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

Prologue : A doorway in Boston -- Once machine. Burden's wheel ; The inventor and his clerk ; Digital millwork ; Goodbye, Bill Gates ; The White City -- Living in the cloud. World wide computer ; From the many to the few ; The great unbundling ; Fighting the net ; A spider's web ; iGod -- Flame and filament.