IT (Still) Doesn't Matter

Nicholas Carr, who famously wrote that "IT Doesn't Matter," is interviewed by Network World in this recent video. He still believes that the utility model for IT will prevail over the long run, and that employees will gain access to unlimited network storage, computing and bandwidth, making privately supplied IT resources, like privately generated electricity before it, a thing of the past.

Comments

[Nick Mudge]

I also think IT resources, computing power and data storage, will become a matter of utilities. But the technical innovation that uses these resources won't be utilities. There is so much more to do with programming and technology and ways of handling and manipulating information. Utilities will be the consolidation for resources, but innovation will be distributed, as it is today. Technology and innovation matters most at the edges.

[Wayne]

Thanks, Nick. I agree with your observations about innovation.