Nick Carr: High Prose and Hogwash

"Hogwash" - that is what Steve Ballmer of Microsoft called Nick Carr's "Does IT Matter?".

Most of us in technology reacted that way to a academic who likely had never spun a tape or written a line of code or developed a TCO model for an IT project.

But over the last few years, many of us have come to admire the "word bird". His prose when he describes tech trends, especially those about the impact of technology on society weaves a magical spell - as he does in the Sun Magazine interview.

Indeed, it is tough to remind yourself  he is a poet not a practitioner.