Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology
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Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology
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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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781118240069 |
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| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 08/29/2012 |
| Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 272 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
JOE BALLAY is former head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and a founding principal of MAYA Design. An interdisciplinarian, he holds an MFA in design from Carnegie Mellon University, a BFA in industrial design from the University of Illinois, and a BS in industrial management from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He has taught design at universities throughout the world.
MICKEY McMANUS is president and CEO of MAYA Design. He holds a BFA in industrial design from the University of Illinois, with extended studies in communication design and mathematics. His work has been published in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of design, pervasive computing, and business innovation.
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Table of Contents
Preface xiAcknowledgments xvii
Chapter 1 The Future, So Far 01
Trillions Is a Done Deal 02
Connectivity Will Be the Seed of Change 05
Computing Turned Inside Out 07
The Power of Digital Literacy 11
Chapter 2 The Next Mountain 15
Fungible Devices 16
Liquid Information 25
Cyberspace for Real 30
Interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Platforms and User Interfaces 39
Yesterday 40
Today 41
Tomorrow 44
Chapter 3 The Tyranny of the Orthodoxy 51
Information Interruptus 52
The King and the Mathematician 60
Links to Nowhere 63
The Wrong Cloud 65
The Dream of One Big Computer 67
The Grand Repository in the Sky 68
FUD and the Birth of the Impostor Cloud 69
The Children’s Crusade 71
The Peer-to-Peer Bogey 80
Chapter 4 How Nature Does It 83
The Internet of Plants 84
Nature Has Been There Before 85
The Qualities of Beautiful Complexity 93
At the Intersection of People and Information 102
Chapter 5 How Design Does It 105
Birth of Industrial Design 107
Novelty, Beauty, Ritual, and Comfort 113
Hearing History Rhyme 114
Instability as the Status Quo 117
Post-Industrial Design 119
Interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Data Storage 133
Yesterday 133
Today 136
Tomorrow 136
Chapter 6 Design Science on Trillions Mountain 139
Beyond Design Thinking to Design Science 140
Make the Right Thing 143
Chapter 7 Architecture with a Capital “A” 167
Architecture as Organic Principles 169
Architecture as Model 170
Architecture as “Style” 171
Information Architecture 173
Architecture and Design Science 178
Chapter 8 Life in an Information Ecology 181
Components 183
Challenges in the Information Ecology 188
Chapter 9 Aspects of Tomorrow 205
Beyond the Internet 206
Simplification 208
Devices 210
The Information Commons 212
The World Wide Dataflow 213
Publishing 216
Safety, Security, and Privacy 218
Epilogue Thriving in the Spacious Foothills 221
Seize the Low Ground 224
Microtransactions and the Rise of T-Commerce 225
Strange Bedfellows 226
Big Data and Information Visualization 226
The Trillions Bubble 227
Notes 231
About the Authors 245
Index 247