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In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure

Paperback • 2015 • English

In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure

By Mark Burgess

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About the book

Quite soon, the world's information infrastructure is going to reach a level of scale and complexity that will force scientists and engineers 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. What makes us think we can rely on all this technology? What keeps it toget...Show more

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9781491923078

Publisher

O'Reilly Media

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure

Format

Paperback

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