Nicholas Carr is one of the leading Internet intellectuals in the United States and an astute observer of the World Wide Web and its role in business today. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he is the author of Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage and, most recently, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, Wired, and many other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian and blogs at www.roughtype.com​.

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