ICT Futures: Delivering Pervasive, Real-time and Secure Services

by Editor: Paul Warren (BT); Co-Editor: John Davies (BT); Co-Editor: David Brown (BT)

• ISBN13: 9780470758663
• ISBN10: 047075866X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

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 assured over the Internet. The underlying ICT infrastructure - the semantic web and the semantic intranet; the real-time service-oriented infrastructure; the future optical network; self-managing networks and agents; P2P technologies; pervasiveness; mobility and wireless technology; and how all this infrastructure can be made secure. ICT technology and how it is affecting industries as diverse as health, finance, retail and law.The book covers a vast wealth of material, with a strong focus upon the impending changes to the way ICT operates.This reference is a valuable tool for people in managerial roles, CIOs, CTOs, business and technology strategists, and students undertaking technology MBAs, or technology modules in general MBAs. Professionals working in ICT will also find this book valuable.

Table of Contents

Editor Biographies

List of Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

People and Technology.

Predicting the Socio-technical Future (and Other Myths)

Social Networks, Social Computing and Knowledge Management

Device Futures

Online Trust and Customer Power: The Emergence of Customer Advocacy

Building the Infrastructure.

The Semantic Web - From Vision to Reality

Flexible ICT Infrastructure

Achieving Security in Enterprise IT

The Future All Optical Network - Why We Need It and How We Get There

End-to-End Service Level Agreements for Complex ICT Solutions

Mobility and ICT

Pervasive Computing

Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age

Applying Technology.

Healthcare

Supply Chain Management in the Retail Sector

Technology Innovation in Global Financial Markets

Technology and Law: The Not So Odd Couple

Final Words.

Over the Horizon

Conclusions

Index

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