Preface
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. | ||
| --Albert Einstein | ||
The first time a baby breathes, systems designed to ease the transition from one life-support stage to the next kick in, and a mandatory cry launches the baby's lungs on their new mission: breathing air instead of “breathing” amniotic fluid. This sort of systemic state transition, fundamental to so many biological phenomena, is also critical to complex adaptive systems of other kinds, including networks of computers. It is within this shared context that I ask you to consider this volume.
When I initially proposed some of the ideas for this book, my intent was to provide a balanced overview of network distributed computing ...
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