Trillions by Lucas, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Route Map for the Ascent of Trillions Mountain Preface

TWO MOUNTAINS A FIELD GUIDE TO TRILLIONS MOUNTAIN

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Future, So Far

TRILLIONS IS A DONE DEAL CONNECTIVITY WILL BE THE SEED OF CHANGE COMPUTING TURNED INSIDE OUT THE POWER OF DIGITAL LITERACY

Chapter 2: The Next Mountain

FUNGIBLE DEVICES LIQUID INFORMATION CYBERSPACE FOR REAL

Interlude: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Platforms and User Interfaces

YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW Chapter 3: The Tyranny of the Orthodoxy

INFORMATION INTERRUPTUS THE KING AND THE MATHEMATICIAN LINKS TO NOWHERE THE WRONG CLOUD THE DREAM OF ONE BIG COMPUTER THE GRAND REPOSITORY IN THE SKY FUD AND THE BIRTH OF THE IMPOSTOR CLOUD THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE THE PEER-TO-PEER BOGEY

Chapter 4: How Nature Does It

THE INTERNET OF PLANTS NATURE HAS BEEN THERE BEFORE THE QUALITIES OF BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXITY AT THE INTERSECTION OF PEOPLE AND INFORMATION

Chapter 5: How Design Does It

BIRTH OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN NOVELTY, BEAUTY, RITUAL, AND COMFORT HEARING HISTORY RHYME INSTABILITY AS THE STATUS QUO POST-INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Interlude: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Data Storage

YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW Chapter 6: Design Science on Trillions Mountain

BEYOND DESIGN THINKING TO DESIGN SCIENCE MAKE THE RIGHT THING

Chapter 7: Architecture with a Capital “A”

ARCHITECTURE AS ORGANIC PRINCIPLES ARCHITECTURE AS MODEL ARCHITECTURE AS “STYLE” INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN SCIENCE

Chapter 8: Life in an Information Ecology

COMPONENTS CHALLENGES IN THE INFORMATION ECOLOGY

Chapter 9: Aspects of Tomorrow

BEYOND THE INTERNET SIMPLIFICATION DEVICES THE INFORMATION COMMONS THE WORLD WIDE DATAFLOW PUBLISHING SAFETY, SECURITY, AND PRIVACY

Epilogue: Thriving in the Spacious Foothills

SEIZE THE LOW GROUND MICROTRANSACTIONS AND THE RISE OF T-COMMERCE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS BIG DATA AND INFORMATION VISUALIZATION THE TRILLIONS BUBBLE

Notes About the Authors Index