| In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure 2nd Ed (O'Reilly) |
| Friday, 15 May 2015 | |||
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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. <ASIN:1491923075> Author: Mark Burgess Visit Book Watch Archive for hundreds more titles. Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews. To have new titles included in Book Watch contact BookWatch@i-programmer.info
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