That's the premise of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, the latest book by Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. The shift will proceed over many years, but if you look at how young people...
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nick's 2004 book, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business.
Another version of RSS, "RDF Site Summary," is not something Winer controls, has "frozen" or given to Harvard. HP will continue to make Overture the default search provider for those who purchase its computers.