Trillions : thriving in the emerging information ecology / Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay, Michael McManus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Peter, 1952-

Contributor:

Ballay, Joe, 1938-

McManus, Michael, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology.

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Thriving in the emerging information ecology

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"The ultimate guide to prepare for--and prosper in--the next technology wave Revealing the fragility of current technology solutions--such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the Cloud--when confronted with the upcoming trillion-node information network, Trillions is an eye-opening book exploring what you need to do to meet the challenge of an information network comprising a trillion or more devices. Filled with diagrams and sidebars offering practical steps, visual case studies, and first person essays to drive home key points, this book exposes the limitations of current technology, inspiring you to meet the coming challenges resulting from the deployment of electronic devices and sensors that will surpass a trillion in number. Describes the upcoming Trillion Node network Explains how brittle our technology infrastructure is--and what we'll need to do to meet the challenge of a trillion or more nodes Offers diagrams, top ten lists, visual case studies, and first person essays Our relationship to information and complexity is evolving in an almost completely unrestrained way. Trillions shows how, done right, pervasive computing can make it possible for individuals and organizations to apprehend the world and its activities as a single system, not only making money for shareholders, but also fostering a more rational and humane world. This book is for anyone interested in helping build, and being part of, that world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Trillions Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology; Contents; Preface; Two Mountains; A Field Guide to Trillions Mountain; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The Future, So Far; Trillions Is a Done Deal; Connectivity Will Be the Seed of Change; Computing Turned Inside Out; The Power of Digital Literacy; Chapter 2 The Next Mountain; Fungible Devices; Where We Stand Today; Where We Can Be Tomorrow; Liquid Information; Where We Stand Today; Where We Can Be Tomorrow; Cyberspace for Real; Where We Stand Today; Where We Can Be Tomorrow

Interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Platforms and User Interfaces Yesterday; Today; Tomorrow; Chapter 3 The Tyranny of the Orthodoxy; Information Interruptus; Forever Is a Long Time; The Dark Side of "Convergence"; The Complexity Cliff; The King and the Mathematician; Links to Nowhere; The Wrong Cloud; Something Vague and Indistinct, Up in the Sky; Once There Was a Real Cloud; The Dream of One Big Computer; The Grand Repository in the Sky; FUD and the Birth of the Impostor Cloud; The Rise of the Computing Hindenburgs; The Children's Crusade; The Demise of Software Engineering

Software Pop Culture and Bad Abstraction Geek Culture Doesn't Care about People; Open Source Is Not the World's Salvation; The Peer-to-Peer Bogey; Chapter 4 How Nature Does It; The Internet of Plants; Nature Has Been There Before; Atoms Get Identity for Free; The Architecture of Chemistry; Life's Currency; Resilience; The Qualities of Beautiful Complexity; Hierarchy; Modularity; Redundancy; Generativity; At the Intersection of People and Information; Chapter 5 How Design Does It; Birth of Industrial Design; Novelty, Beauty, Ritual, and Comfort; Hearing History Rhyme

Instability as the Status Quo Post-Industrial Design; Post-Industrial Design = Complexity Design; Becoming "Human Literate"; The Interdisciplinary Dimension; The Future Is Already Here; interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Data Storage; Yesterday; Today; Tomorrow; Chapter 6 Design Science on Trillions Mountain; Beyond Design Thinking to Design Science; Make the Right Thing; Deeply Interdisciplinary Methods; Focusing on Humans; Interaction Physics; Information-Centric Interaction Design; Computation in Context; Chapter 7 Architecture with a Capital "A"; Architecture as Organic Principles

Architecture as Model Architecture as "Style"; Information Architecture; Architecture and Design Science; Chapter 8 Life in an Information Ecology; Components; The Life Forms: Devices; The Currency: Information; Information Architecture and Device Architecture; The Environment: Human Culture; Challenges in the Information Ecology; Resiliency; Trust; Felicitousness: Designing for People; Chapter 9 Aspects of Tomorrow; Beyond the Internet; Simplification; Devices; The Information Commons; The World Wide Dataflow; Publishing; Safety, Security, and Privacy

Epilogue Thriving in the Spacious Foothills

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613904843

9781283592390

1283592398

9781118227152

1118227158

OCLC:

784448477