Download or read book Interop written by John Palfrey and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interop, technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability -- the standardization and integration of technology -- and show how this simple principle will hold the key to our success in the coming decades and beyond. The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money revolutionized debt markets and simplified trade, and the standardization of credit networks has allowed for the purchase of goods using money deposited in a bank half a world away. These advancements did not eradicate the different systems they affected; instead, each system has been transformed so that it can interoperate with systems all over the world, while still preserving local diversity. As Palfrey and Gasser show, interoperability is a critical aspect of any successful system -- and now it is more important than ever. Today we are confronted with challenges that affect us on a global scale: the financial crisis, the quest for sustainable energy, and the need to reform health care systems and improve global disaster response systems. The successful flow of information across systems is crucial if we are to solve these problems, but we must also learn to manage the vast degree of interconnection inherent in each system involved. Interoperability offers a number of solutions to these global challenges, but Palfrey and Gasser also consider its potential negative effects, especially with respect to privacy, security, and co-dependence of states; indeed, interoperability has already sparked debates about document data formats, digital music, and how to create successful yet safe cloud computing. Interop demonstrates that, in order to get the most out of interoperability while minimizing its risks, we will need to fundamentally revisit our understanding of how it works, and how it can allow for improvements in each of its constituent parts. In Interop, Palfrey and Gasser argue that there needs to be a nuanced, stable theory of interoperability -- one that still generates efficiencies, but which also ensures a sustainable mode of interconnection. Pointing the way forward for the new information economy, Interop provides valuable insights into how technological integration and innovation can flourish in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Born Digital written by John Palfrey and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first generation of Digital Natives children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these Digital Natives? And what is the world theyre creating going to look like? In Born Digital, leading Internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a sociological portrait of these young people, who can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily sophisticated and strangely narrow. Exploring a broad range of issues, from the highly philosophical to the purely practical, Born Digital will be essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present and shape the digital future.

Download or read book Media and Political Engagement written by Peter Dahlgren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the media's role in shaping civic engagement and enhancing political engagement.

Download or read book The Open Work written by Umberto Eco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.

Download or read book Communication and Democracy written by Slavko Splichal and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political, and cultural institutions associated with the definitions of new technologies. Many of the traditional conceptions of the relation of the media to democracy were predicated upon a certain perception of communication technology and the major contemporary debates related to democratization have to do, again, with the deployment of technologies. How do all these developments affect society? How is the communications explosion related to democracy? What are the implications for the social functions of communications, people's activities, consciousness and values, media ownership and control, both nationally and internationally? These are some of the questions discussed in this volume.

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Download or read book Mi Libro para Colorear de Unicornios para Adultos written by Freeman New Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuestro libro para colorear Mi Unicornio para adultos te lleva a un viaje mágico. Este es el libro perfecto para los amantes de los unicornios y para los que quieren expresar su creatividad coloreando. Las 20 páginas para colorear que encontrarás en su interior han sido cuidadosamente seleccionadas para garantizar tu relajación y alivio del estrés. Detalles del libro para colorear: - Promueve la atención, la creatividad y la relajación. - Variaciones en blanco y negro de cada imagen. - Papel de una sola cara para que sea fácil arrancar tus favoritos. - Ideal para todos los tipos de bolígrafo, lápiz y mercado. - Impreso en tamaño grande 8,5″x11″. - Y proporciona horas de disfrute para colorear. IDEAL PARA REGALAR: ¡Este libro para colorear es el regalo perfecto para un ser querido, un amigo o un familiar! ★Scroll up y compra el tuyo hoy!★

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