Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 267 mm, Gewicht: 747 g
ISBN: 978-1-118-17607-8
Verlag: Wiley
We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities--technical, business, and human--that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey.
There are already many more computing devices in the world than there are people. In a few more years, their number will climb into the trillions. We put microprocessors into nearly every significant thing that we manufacture, and the cost of routine computing and storage is rapidly becoming negligible. We have literally permeated our world with computation. But more significant than mere numbers is the fact we are quickly figuring out how to make those processors communicate with each other, and with us. We are about to be faced, not with a trillion isolated devices, but with a trillion-node network: a network whose scale and complexity will dwarf that of today's Internet. And, unlike the Internet, this will be a network not of computation that we use, but of computation that we live in.
Written by the leaders of one of America's leading pervasive computing design firms, this book gives a no-holds-barred insiders' account of both the promise and the risks of the age of Trillions. It is also a cautionary tale of the head-in-the-sand attitude with which many of today's thought-leaders are at present approaching these issues. Trillions is a field guide to the future--designed to help businesses and their customers prepare to prosper, in the information.
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Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
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
Liquid Information
Cyberspace for Real
Interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Platforms and User Interfaces
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Chapter 3 The Tyranny of the Orthodoxy
Information Interruptus
The King and the Mathematician
Links to Nowhere
The Wrong Cloud
The Dream of One Big Computer
The Grand Repository in the Sky
FUD and the Birth of the Impostor Cloud
The Children's Crusade
The Peer-to-Peer Bogey
Chapter 4 How Nature Does It
The Internet of Plants
Nature Has Been There Before
The Qualities of Beautiful Complexity
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
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
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
Challenges in the Information Ecology
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
Seize the Low Ground
Micro-transactions and the Rise of T-Commerce
Strange Bedfellows
Big Data" and Information Visualization
The Trillions Bubble
Notes
About the Authors
Index
