ICT futures delivering pervasive, real-time and secure services /
Learn all about the major trends and future advancements in ICT!. ICT Futures provides an insightful introduction to the major technology trends in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and to the economic, commercial and societal environment which is shaping them. . The experienced auth...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470758656 |
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Learn all about the major trends and future advancements in ICT!. ICT Futures provides an insightful introduction to the major technology trends in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and to the economic, commercial and societal environment which is shaping them. . The experienced author-team, consisting of experts from both industry and academia, addresses: The interaction between people and technology - how ICT affects every day social practices; the rise of social computing; how the way we interact with information and the devices we use are changing; and how trust can be as |
Carrier Form: | xxvi, 242 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780470758656 0470758651 9780470758663 (electronic bk.) 047075866X (electronic bk.) 1282343491 9781282343498 |
Index Number: | TK5102 |
CLC: | F623 |
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ICT Futures: Delivering Pervasive, Real-time and Secure Services; Contents; Editor Biographies; List of Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: People and Technology; 1: Predicting the Socio-technical Future (and Other Myths); 2: Social Networks, Social Computing and Knowledge Management; 3: Device Futures; 4: Online Trust and Customer Power: The Emergence of Customer Advocacy; Part Two: Building the Infrastructure; 5: The Semantic Web -- from Vision to Reality; 6: Flexible ICT Infrastructure; 7: Achieving Security in Enterprise IT. 8: The Future All Optical Network -- Why We Need It and How We Get There9: End-to-End Service Level Agreements for Complex ICT Solutions; 10: Mobility and ICT; 11: Pervasive Computing; 12: Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age; Part Three: Applying Technology; 13: Healthcare; 14: Supply Chain Management in the Retail Sector; 15: Technology Innovation in Global Financial Markets; 16: Technology and Law: The Not So Odd Couple; Part Four: Final Words; 17: Over the Horizon; 18: C. |