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In Search of Certainty (Paperback)
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In Search of Certainty (Paperback)
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Quite soon, the world's information infrastructure is going to
reach a level of scale and complexity that will force scientists
and engineers to approach it in an entirely new way. The familiar
notions of command and control are being thwarted by realities of a
faster, denser world of communication where choice, variety, and
indeterminism rule. The myth of the machine that does exactly what
we tell it has come to an end. What makes us think we can rely on
all this technology? What keeps it together today, and how might it
work tomorrow? Will we know how to build the next generation-or
will we be lulled into a stupor of dependence brought about by its
conveniences? In this book, Mark Burgess focuses on the impact of
computers and information on our modern infrastructure by taking
you from the roots of science to the principles behind system
operation and design. To shape the future of technology, we need to
understand how it works-or else what we don't understand will end
up shaping us. This book explores this subject in three parts: Part
I, Stability: describes the fundamentals of predictability, and why
we have to give up the idea of control in its classical meaning
Part II, Certainty: describes the science of what we can know, when
we don't control everything, and how we make the best of life with
only imperfect information Part III, Promises: explains how the
concepts of stability and certainty may be combined to approach
information infrastructure as a new kind of virtual material,
restoring a continuity to human-computer systems so that society
can rely on them.
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