Book description
How "data everywhere" transforms business, technology, and the way you live
A pioneering look at grand, new efficiencies forthcoming
As communications, computing, and data storage converge, data is becoming utterly ubiquitous...and that changes everything. In this book, two leading data management visionaries reveal how data transforms the way you do business, the technologies you use, the investments you make, the life you live, and the world you live in.
Chris Stakutis and John Webster draw on interviews with nearly 50 leading experts: technologists, sociologists, entrepreneurs, consultants, researchers, media leaders, and futurists alike. You'll discover how today's "primordial soup" of wired and wireless gadgetry is quickly coalescing into something immensely more powerful, driving applications you thought were pure science fiction. You'll also gain deep insight into the profound implications of ubiquitous data capture: implications that touch everything from your bedroom to the battlefield:
The emerging "Connectivity Divide." Which side of the chasm are you on?
Inescapable data's technical components: Async communications,
pervasive computing devices, wireless, and XML
Global calendars, momentary enterprises: Transforming your life and business
Uncontrolled information availability: Its risks to your security and well-being
The future of technical infrastructure, grids, smart storage, and beyond
Radical, new modes of information delivery: Nonnumeric, nontextual, unobtrusive
Future tech: From holographic displays to fertility "wall clocks"
Your DNA on a chip: The heart of your personal health and wellness program
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- IBM Press
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- One. The Inescapable Data Vision
- Two. The Connectivity Divide
- Three. Inescapable Data Fundamentals
- Four. FromWarfare to Government, Connectivity Is Vitality
- Five. Pervading the Home
- Six. Connecting Medicine
- Seven. Work Life: Oxymoron No Longer
- Eight. Real-Time Manufacturing
- Nine. Sports and Entertainment: Energizing Our Involvement
- Ten. Connecting to Retail
- Eleven. Computer Storage Impacted by Inescapable Data
- Twelve. Super Computers, Visualization, and Networks
- Thirteen. Inescapable Data in Perspective
- This Book Is Based On In-Depth Interviews With These Industry Thinkers
Product information
- Title: Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2005
- Publisher(s): IBM Press
- ISBN: 9780131852150
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