{"product_id":"trillions-peter-lucas-9781118176078","title":"Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lucas,Joe Ballay,Mickey McManus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1118176073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781118176078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.26w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Axiom Business Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013","brand":"Peter Lucas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48435985285375,"sku":"9781118176078","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b175ed2-4208-413b-b6ee-e3fa12aeddfb.jpg?v=1777154008","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trillions-peter-lucas-9781118176078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}