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Jan 12 2008 5:23PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Cloud computing, Google, Technology
Overheard: Google is leading the new industrial revolution
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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The real electrical innovation wasn’t Thomas Edison’s idea of installing individual power plants in factories. It was Edison’s financial clerk, Samuel Insull, who thought of creating a central plant that powers an entire region, turning electricity into a utility and vastly dropping its price.
Nicholas Carr, as quoted in When Google Grows Up |





