By Nicholas G. Carr
I agree with Nicholas
G. Carr's point that IT has become cheap and easily accessible, "You only
gain an advantage over somebody by having something that they can't have or
do". This reminds me of the metaphor "building a better mouse trap".
If you keep re building something you are not gaining any advantage. You are
simply just re creating something that has already been created. If you want to
get ahead in life you need something better than what is already out there.
However, I disagree
with Nicholas Carr's reasoning. He compares IT to services that share
no relevance to IT, such as; "the steam engine, the railroad,
the telegraph, the telephone, the electric generator and the internal
combustion engine." Nicholas states that these are all broadly adopted
technologies, they began by opening new opportunities for companies to gain a
real advantage, but their availability increased and their cost decreased,
making them commodity inputs.
The examples that have
been used above share no relevance to IT. IT is the backbone to
commerce and an industry that will continue to keep growing supplying
forward-looking companies with its benefits.
~ Luisa Zigliani
