In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure

by Mark Burgess

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491923075
• ISBN13: 9781491923078
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"