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.
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July 2007
Reflections
Big ideas
Permanent posts
- IT, Beauty and Grace
- "Directionally less hierarchical"
- c:\copy *.* a:
- People have something to say
- New Missouri CIO: show me the infrastructure
- Municipal broadband could be the heavyweight fight of telecom reform
- Wicked problems determine IT agency future
- Can you hear me now?
- The wisdom of civil servants
- Wrapping the network around a new idea
People I Read
- Rep. Aaron Pena: A Capitol Blog
- Seth Godin
- Nicholas Carr: Rough Type
- Nick Mudge: Technology and Government
- Susan Miller: Culture and Context
- Jay Rosen: PressThink
- Steve Rubel: Micro Persuasion
- Om Malik: Broadband Blog
- Ross Mayfield: Socialtext
- Clay Shirky
- Phil Windley: Technometria
- David Fletcher: Government and Technology Weblog
Places I Go
- Center for Digital Government
- Council of State Governments
- Governing: Technology news
- Government Technology
- NASCIO - Homepage
- NASTD - Technology Professionals Serving State Government
- National Center for Digital Government Research and Practice at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
- National Governors Association
- Stateline
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.
Posted by: Nick Mudge | April 26, 2006 at 12:42 PM
Thanks, Nick. I agree with your observations about innovation.
Posted by: Wayne | April 27, 2006 at 10:39 AM