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"As [information technology] becomes cheaper and more standardized, as its power and capabilities begin to outstrip most companies' needs, the advantages it once provided are dissipating, and its great transformational power is starting to fade...As was true with railroads and electricity and highways, it is only by becoming a shared and standardized infrastructure that IT will be able to deliver its greatest economic and social benefits, raising productivity and living standards and serving as a platform for a range of new and desirable consumer goods and services. History reveals that IT needs to become ordinary - needs to lose its strategic importance as a differentiator of companies - if it is to fulfill its potential."

-Nicholas Carr, "Does IT Matter" (2004)

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  Mar 19 2008: God Bless Dave Eggers.