Trillions

Zusatztext '...if you want a bit of a challenge! aren't afraid of controversial ideas and are looking for a radical new design approach then this book is for you' (British Computer Society! January 2013) Informationen zum Autor PETER LUCAS is founding principal at MAYA Design, which he cofounded in 1989. He is also adjunct associate professor of Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a PhD from Cornell University, where he studied educational and cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. He served on the Committee on Networked Systems of Embedded Computers of the National Research Council. 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. Klappentext 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 that we are quickly figuring out how to make those processors communicate with each other, and with us. We are about to be faced with-not 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 not only to survive, but thrive, in the information. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Inform...

List of contents

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

Report

"This book provides a refreshing, insightful guide to how companies can prepare for future technology innovations and thrive in this emerging information age. Summing Up: Recommended. Business and computer science collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers." (Choice, 1 July 2013)

Product details

• Authors: Joe Ballay, Joe et Al Ballay, Ballay Joe, Peter Lucas, Mickey McManus, McManus Mickey
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2012
• EAN: 9781118176078
• ISBN: 978-1-118-17607-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 262 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & management, Management and management techniques, Wirtschaft u. Management, Unternehmenstechnologie, Business Technology