Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Trillions Author: Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay and Mickey McManus Publisher: Wiley ASIN: 1118176073

About This Book

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 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.

"Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology" offers an insiders’ account of both the promise and the risks of the age of "Trillions". Trillions is a field guide to the future--designed to help businesses and their customers prepare.