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Trillions : thriving in the emerging information ecology /

"The ultimate guide to prepare for--and prosper in--the next technology waveRevealing 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 e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lucas, Peter, 1952-
Otros Autores: Ballay, Joe, 1938-, McManus, Michael, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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  • 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 InterfacesYesterday; 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 Cl oud; 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 Sk y; FUD and the Birth of the Impostor Cl oud; The Rise of the Computing Hindenburgs; The Chil dren's Crusade; The Demise of Software Engineering.
  • Software Pop Culture and Bad AbstractionGeek 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 Intersecti on of Peopleand Informati on; Chapter 5 How Design Does It; Birth of Industrial Design; Novelty, Beauty, Ritual, and Comfort; Hearing History Rhyme.
  • Instability as the Status QuoPost-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 ModelArchitecture 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 Ec ology; 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.