Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology

Notes

Although this is not a scholarly text, we have attempted to provide sources for all factual claims. We have gone to significant lengths to provide citations of persistent (that is to say, “paper”) sources whenever possible. However, given our subject matter, a disturbing number of citations are necessarily in the form of web URLs. We are painfully aware that most of these links will soon “go dead.” We can only offer our apologies and our assurances that we have done our best to characterize such information fairly and accurately in the text.

Preface

page xiv	trends are widely recognized: The literature on these trends is huge and dates back at least until the 1980s. In addition to the terms pervasive computing and ubiquitous computing, web searches for the terms Internet of things, ambient intelligence, machine to machine, and smart environments will produce useful results. A good general introduction can be found in M. Weiser, “The Computer of the 21st Century,” Scientific American 265 (September 1991): 104.
page xiv	“smart dust”: Mohammad Ilyas and Imad Mahgoub, Smart Dust: Sensor Network Applications, Architecture, and Design (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006), 1–3.
page xiv	nuts-and-bolts issues: A typical example of the genre is Stefan Poslad, Ubiquitous Computing: Smart Devices, Environments and Interactions (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2009).
page xv	“Most Advanced Yet Acceptable”: Raymond Loewy, Never Leave Well Enough Alone (New York: Simon & Schuster, ...