In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure 2nd Ed (O'Reilly)
Friday, 15 May 2015

Quite soon, the world’s information infrastructure is going to reach a level of scale and complexity that will force us 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. Mark Burgess focuses on the impact of computers and information on our modern infrastructure going 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.

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Author: Mark Burgess
Publisher: O'Reilly 
Date: April 19, 2015
Pages: 472
ISBN: 9781491923075
Print: 1491923075
Kindle: B00WL6SPR6

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