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Does It Matter Nicholas Carr
By Special to CNET News.com August 21, 2004, 6:00 AM PDT When the Harvard Business Review published 'IT Doesn't Matter' in May 2003, the point was to start an argument, or, as they say in the more genteel world of academia, a debate. The provocative title of the article, as well as its timing--it was published at the tail end of a long slump in technology spending--ensured that a dustup would ensue.
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The resulting debate has been impassioned and often revealing. And it's still going on. The essay was written by Nicholas G. Carr, then editor at large of HBR and now a consultant and author. The central theme: There is nothing all that special about information technology. Carr declared that information technology is inevitably going the way of the railroads, the telegraph and electricity, which all became, in economic terms, just ordinary factors of production, or 'commodity inputs.' 'From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered,' Carr wrote.