The Power And Future Of Networks
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Author | : Aditya Pratap Bhuyan |
Publisher | : Aditya Pratap Bhuyan |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2024-07-21 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : |
"The Power and Future of Networks": A Book Exploring Connectivity and its Impact "The Power and Future of Networks" dives into the fascinating world of networks, exploring their history, impact, and the exciting possibilities they hold for the future. It delves beyond the technical aspects, examining how networks have revolutionized various sectors and shaped our social and economic landscape. The book unpacks the concept of the network effect, explaining how interconnectedness amplifies the value of networks as the number of users or devices grows. It showcases real-world examples of how networks have transformed communication, education, healthcare, and entertainment. Looking ahead, the book explores emerging network technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and cloud computing. It discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with these advancements, emphasizing the need for responsible network management, robust security solutions, and a focus on user experience. The book doesn't shy away from the ethical considerations of a hyper-connected world. It explores issues like data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the potential for misuse of technology. It advocates for a collaborative and responsible approach to network development, ensuring ethical considerations, digital citizenship, and network neutrality are prioritized. "The Power and Future of Networks" is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in understanding the power of networks and their impact on our lives. It provides a compelling narrative for both tech enthusiasts and those curious about the future of technology. This book serves as a springboard for further exploration, offering a rich bibliography and appendix brimming with practical resources, case studies, and hands-on activities to solidify your network knowledge. By understanding the power of networks, we can become active participants in shaping their future, ensuring they continue to connect, empower, and unlock a world of limitless possibilities.
Author | : Lina Benabdallah |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2020-07-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 047212689X |
China’s rise to power is one of the biggest questions in International Relations theory (IRT) and foreign policy circles. Although power has been a core concept of IRT for a long time, the faces and mechanisms of power as it relates to Chinese foreign policymaking has changed the contours of that debate. The rise of China and other powers across the global political arena sparks a new visibility for different kinds of encounters between states, particularly between China and other Global South states. These encounters are more visible to IR scholars because of the increasing influence that rising powers have in the international system. This book shows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or investment strategies of Euro-American hegemons. Instead, they have distinctive features that require new theoretical frameworks for analysis. Shaping the Future of Power probes the types of power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa. One must take into account the processes of knowledge production, social capital formation, and skills transfers that Chinese foreign policy directs toward African states to fully understand China’s power-building mechanisms. The relational power framework requires these elements to capture both the material aspects and ideational people-centered aspects to power. By examining China’s investments in human resource development programs for Africa, the book reveals a vital, yet undertheorized, aspect of China’s foreign policy making.
Author | : Christopher G. Brinton |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0691183309 |
An accessible illustrated introducton to the networks we use every day, from Facebook and Google to WiFi and the Internet What makes WiFi faster at home than at a coffee shop? How does Google order search results? Is it really true that everyone on Facebook is connected by six steps or less? The Power of Networks answers questions like these for the first time in a way that all of us can understand. Using simple language, analogies, stories, hundreds of illustrations, and no more math than simple addition and multiplication, Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang provide a smart and accessible introduction to the handful of big ideas that drive the computer networks we use every day. The Power of Networks unifies these ideas through six fundamental principles of networking. These principles explain the difficulties in sharing network resources efficiently, how crowds can be wise or not so wise depending on the nature of their connections, why there are many layers in a network, and more. Along the way, the authors also talk with and share the special insights of renowned experts such as Google’s Eric Schmidt, former Verizon Wireless CEO Dennis Strigl, and “fathers of the Internet” Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn.
Author | : Johnny Ryan |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1861898355 |
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom, and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. From the government-controlled systems of the Cold War to today’s move towards cloud computing, user-driven content, and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics, and media of the digital future.
Author | : Ben Tarnoff |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2022-06-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1839762039 |
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this-it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximization, through a years-long process of privatization that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today. The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Not with an eye towards making markets work better, but towards making them less dominant. Not in order to create a more competitive or more rule-bound version of privatization, but to overturn it. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone's behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.
Author | : Yochai Benkler |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780300125771 |
Describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing. The author shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront.
Author | : Joseph S Nye Jr |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1586488929 |
The Future of Power examines what it means to be forceful and effective in a world in which the traditional ideas of state power have been upended by technology, and rogue actors. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a longtime analyst of power and a hands-on practitioner in government, delivers a new power narrative that considers the shifts, innovations, bold technologies, and new relationships that are defining the twenty-first century. He shows how power resources are adapting to the digital age and how smart power strategies must include more than a country's military strength. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world. Today, China, Russia, India, and others are increasing their share of world power resources. Information once reserved for the government is now available for mass consumption. The Internet has literally put power at the fingertips of nonstate agents, allowing them to launch cyberattacks from their homes. The cyberage has created a new power frontier among states, ripe with opportunity for developing countries. To remain at the pinnacle of world power, the United States must adopt a strategy that designed for a global information age.
Author | : Mohsen Parsa Moghaddam |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0323985629 |
Decentralized Frameworks for Future Power Systems: Operation, Planning and Control Perspectives is the first book to consider the principles and applications of decentralized decision-making in future power networks. The work opens by defining the emerging power system network as a system-of-systems (SoS), exploring the guiding principles behind optimal solutions for operation and planning problems. Chapters emphasize the role of regulations, prosumption behaviors, and the implementation of transactive energy processes as key components in decentralizing power systems. Contributors explore local markets, distribution system operation and proactive load management. The role of cryptocurrencies in smoothing transactive distributional challenges are presented. Final sections cover energy system planning, particularly in terms of consumer smart meter technologies and distributed optimization methods, including artificial intelligence, meta-heuristic, heuristic, mathematical and hybrid approaches. The work closes by considering decentralization across the cybersecurity, distributed control, market design and power quality optimization vertices. - Develops a novel framework for transactive energy management to enhance flexibility in future power systems - Explores interactions between multiple entities in local power markets based on a distributed optimization approach - Focuses on practical optimization, planning and control of smart grid systems towards decentralized decision-making
Author | : Chris Brown |
Publisher | : John Catt |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2022-07-27 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1915361427 |
Now, more than ever, it seems that the age of professional learning networks has well and truly arrived. The rise and proliferation of digital communication, coupled with the circumstances enforced during the pandemic experience, have led to a dynamic re-imagining of Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) – both in terms of what they are for and what they can achieve. Set against this context this book provides a stimulating insight into the current state of the art of professional learning networks and the transformative difference they are poised to make to our educational future. Drawing on a wealth of expertise, each chapter is written by leading thinkers and doers in the field, and covers a range of topics and emerging areas. These include: the professional learning vistas opened up through digital opportunities; how these networks have helped to enhance teachers’ identity and sense of well-being: the new sense of practitioner ownership and partnership now at the heart of PLNs; new openings for professionalization; how PLNs have become vehicles for radically different forms of professional development and learning; and what this all means for school leadership.
Author | : Timothy MacTaggart |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-09-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0646993038 |
Electrical power systems are facing an unprecedented period of change. Technologies that underpinned cheap and reliable power supply in the 20th century are being challenged by potentially disruptive innovations that threaten to remake electricity networks around the world. But the established systems remain stubbornly resistant to change. In this book, author Dr Tim MacTaggart explores some of the sources of resistance to widespread technological change in the electricity sector. Based on research work in the Australian electricity sector and drawing on fields as diverse as economics and diffusion of innovation, it provides unprecedented insight into the factors that keep electricity firmly rooted in the past while offering insights into how it might evolve in the future.