Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison To Google is a look at two major changes in how business behaved. It is part success story, and part warning, and it does a great job of both. The first fifth of the book is about the process of moving from a world powered [...]
Archive for March 2008
The Big Switch
March 17, 2008Macs take over astronomy
March 11, 2008Okay, maybe not all of astronomy, but I got these numbers yesterday from the people who handle HST proposal submissions: Platform Proposals Mac OS X 492 Linux 297 Windows 115 Sparc Sun 46 Not Given 11 Five years ago, less than ten percent of proposals were done on Macs. This year it’s more than half. [...]
