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The sustainable network : the accidental answer for a troubled planet /
"What technologies do we need to solve the complex environmental, economic, social, and political challenges facing us today? As this thought-provoking book reveals, one tool for enacting change is already at our fingertips: the global network. Consider the private domains of companies, governm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol, Calif. :
O'Reilly Media,
©2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Sustainable living series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I am a node
- What is the network: how does it work?
- Green by accident
- What makes the network sustainable?
- Broadband: what is it?
- Can the Internet hit a wall?
- Mobile me
- Take it with you
- Network's green factor
- Carbon footprints
- Net efficiencies: maximizing resources while minimizing waste
- What's so smart about a energy grid?
- Dematerialization
- Detravelization
- What is the network: how is telecommuting enabled?
- Pushing the boundaries
- Data center
- Energy efficiency measurement
- Doing good by doing right
- Is broadband really that important?
- Sustainable providers
- Net neutrality
- Tearing down economic boundaries
- Information is king
- Evolution
- Network time
- Political sustainability
- Rocking the vote
- Right to network usage
- Challenges of the networked world
- Network defenses depend on how traffic is sent
- I am on the net, therefore I am vulnerable
- Antisocial network engineering
- Protect the net
- Last best place to attack: your mobile
- Government's role in protecting the network's integrity
- 21st-Century warfare: cyberattacks
- Social sustainability
- Health net
- Not by accident: social networking
- Our relationship with the network.