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Trillions

Trillions Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology

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  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 9781118176078
  • Published In: September 2012
  • Format: Hardback , 252 pages
  • Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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    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 atrillion-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 welive 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.

  • Preface xi

    Acknowledgments 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

  • JAN CULLINANE is the bestselling coauthor of The New Retirement. She has been featured on TV, on the radio, and in many newspapers and magazines. She is a speaker and consultant on retirement lifestyle issues whose clients include Ford Motor Company, Deloitte & Touche LLP, the federal government, and the Smithsonian Institution.

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