The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr

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Ostensibly about cloud computing, the switch from localized IT and PCs to utility-based services, there's some other really interesting stuff in here, some of it scary.

Such as:

1) The impact computers -- and specifically the Internet -- are having on employment (it ain't good).

2) How much info is being collected on us -- basically how every click we make is there to be mined.

3) The basic instability of the whole grid.

4) Also an interesting discussion about how it's all making us more Balkanized -- like groups find like groups and become more and more inflexible in their beliefs.

Not quite finished. Good book.

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From the epilogue, last paragraph of the book:

"All technological change is generational change. The full power and consequences of a new technology are unleashed only when those who have grown up with it become adults and begin to push their outdated parents to the margins. As the older generations die, they take with them the knowledge of what was lost when the new technology arrived, and only the sense of what was gained remains. It's in this way that progress covers its tracks, perpetually refreshing the illusion that where we are is where we were meant to be."

I really liked this book.