{"product_id":"trillions-isbn-9781118176078","title":"Trillions","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere 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 a \u003ci\u003etrillion-node network\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 \u003ci\u003euse\u003c\/i\u003e, but of computation that we \u003ci\u003elive in\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten 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. \u003ci\u003eTrillions\u003c\/i\u003e is a field guide to the future--designed to help businesses and their customers prepare to prosper, \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e the information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 The Future, So Far 01\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrillions Is a Done Deal 02\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnectivity Will Be the Seed of Change 05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComputing Turned Inside Out 07\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Power of Digital Literacy 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 The Next Mountain 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFungible Devices 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiquid Information 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCyberspace for Real 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Platforms and User Interfaces 39\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYesterday 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTomorrow 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 The Tyranny of the Orthodoxy 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation Interruptus 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe King and the Mathematician 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLinks to Nowhere 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wrong Cloud 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dream of One Big Computer 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Grand Repository in the Sky 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFUD and the Birth of the Impostor Cloud 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Children’s Crusade 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Peer-to-Peer Bogey 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 How Nature Does It 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Internet of Plants 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNature Has Been There Before 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Qualities of Beautiful Complexity 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the Intersection of People and Information 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 How Design Does It 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBirth of Industrial Design 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNovelty, Beauty, Ritual, and Comfort 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHearing History Rhyme 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstability as the Status Quo 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-Industrial Design 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Data Storage 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYesterday 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToday 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTomorrow 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 Design Science on Trillions Mountain 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Design Thinking to Design Science 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMake the Right Thing 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Architecture with a Capital “A” 167\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as Organic Principles 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as Model 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as “Style” 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation Architecture 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture and Design Science 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Life in an Information Ecology 181\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComponents 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges in the Information Ecology 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 Aspects of Tomorrow 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Internet 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimplification 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevices 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Information Commons 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe World Wide Dataflow 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublishing 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSafety, Security, and Privacy 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue Thriving in the Spacious Foothills 221\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeize the Low Ground 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMicrotransactions and the Rise of T-Commerce 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrange Bedfellows 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBig Data and Information Visualization 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trillions Bubble 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Authors 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 247\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“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.”  (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 July 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER LUCAS \u003c\/b\u003eis 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOE BALLAY\u003c\/b\u003e 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICKEY M\u003csmall\u003eC\u003c\/small\u003eMANUS\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Fast Company, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a frequent speaker on the topic of design, pervasive computing, and business innovation.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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. 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