November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
5h 39m
English
Content preview from Aligning Technology with Business for Digital Transformation
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The universe, they say, started with a Big Bang and went through a phase of hyperinflationary growth before things cooled down and the expansion rate stabilized. Once this happened, conditions evolved that produced stars, planets, life (at least here on Earth), and eventually, pockets of intelligence.
As it morphed into its present form, the universe also splintered into dimensions. There was no concept of space and time before the creation event. Don’t get alarmed yet—this is not a book on the physics of the Big Bang! The reason I bring up the subject in the opening lines is that the universe is the best model to explain the concept of hyperinflationary growth along multiple dimensions. As we shall see in later ...