In search of certainty : the science of our information infrastructure / Mark Burgess.
In search of certainty : the science of our information infrastructure / Mark Burgess.
In search of certainty : the science of our information infrastructure / Mark Burgess.
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Sabastapol, CA : O'Reilly Media, 2015.
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G 2015/2784
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English
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xiv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I: Stability -- King Canute and the butterfly -- Feedback patterns and thresholds -- Digilogy: cause, effect, and information -- All the roads to nowhere -- Zero and the building blocks of Babel. Part II: Certainty -- Keeping it together by pulling it apart -- Seeing is disbelieving -- The equ...
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Sabastapol, CA : O'Reilly Media, 2015.
Edition
Second edition.
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California
Date Published
2015.
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"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. Th...
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In search of certainty : the science of our information infrastructure / Mark Burgess.
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Includes bibliographic references (pages 426-439) and index.
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G 2015/2784
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1491923075 paperback
9781491923078 paperback
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004
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991022935289702626
