Trillions Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology -- Contents -- Preface -- Two Mountains -- A Field Guide to Trillions Mountain -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Future, So Far -- Trillions Is a Done Deal -- Connectivity Will Be the Seed of Change -- Computing Turned Inside Out -- The Power of Digital Literacy -- Chapter 2 The Next Mountain -- Fungible Devices -- Where We Stand Today -- Where We Can Be Tomorrow -- Liquid Information -- Where We Stand Today -- Where We Can Be Tomorrow -- Cyberspace for Real -- Where We Stand Today -- Where We Can Be Tomorrow -- Interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Platforms and User Interfaces -- Yesterday -- Today -- Tomorrow -- Chapter 3 The Tyranny of the Orthodoxy -- Information Interruptus -- Forever Is a Long Time -- The Dark Side of "Convergence" -- The Complexity Cliff -- The King and the Mathematician -- Links to Nowhere -- The Wrong Cl oud -- Something Vague and Indistinct, Up in the Sky -- Once There Was a Real Cloud -- The Dream of One Big Computer -- The Grand Repository in the Sk y -- FUD and the Birth of the Impostor Cl oud -- The Rise of the Computing Hindenburgs -- The Chil dren's Crusade -- The Demise of Software Engineering -- Software Pop Culture and Bad Abstraction -- Geek Culture Doesn't Care about People -- Open Source Is Not the World's Salvation -- The Peer-to-Peer Bogey -- Chapter 4 How Nature Does It -- The Internet of Plants -- Nature Has Been There Before -- Atoms Get Identity for Free -- The Architecture of Chemistry -- Life's Currency -- Resilience -- The Qualities of Beautiful Complexity -- Hierarchy -- Modularity -- Redundancy -- Generativity -- At the Intersecti on of Peopleand Informati on -- Chapter 5 How Design Does It -- Birth of Industrial Design -- Novelty, Beauty, Ritual, and Comfort -- Hearing History Rhyme -- Instability as the Status Quo.

Post-Industrial Design -- Post-Industrial Design = Complexity Design -- Becoming "Human Literate" -- The Interdisciplinary Dimension -- The Future Is Already Here -- interlude Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Data Storage -- Yesterday -- Today -- Tomorrow -- Chapter 6 Design Science on Trillions Mountain -- Beyond Design Thinking to Design Science -- Make the Right Thing -- Deeply Interdisciplinary Methods -- Focusing on Humans -- Interaction Physics -- Information-Centric Interaction Design -- Computation in Context -- Chapter 7 Architecture with a Capital "A" -- Architecture as Organic Principles -- Architecture as Model -- Architecture as "Style" -- Information Architecture -- Architecture and Design Science -- Chapter 8 Life in an Information Ecology -- Components -- The Life Forms: Devices -- The Currency: Information -- Information Architecture and Device Architecture -- The Environment: Human Culture -- Challenges in the Information Ec ology -- Resiliency -- Trust -- Felicitousness: Designing for People -- Chapter 9 Aspects of Tomorrow -- Beyond the Internet -- Simplification -- Devices -- The Information Commons -- The World Wide Dataflow -- Publishing -- Safety, Security, and Privacy -- Epilogue Thriving in the Spacious Foothills -- Seize the Low Ground -- Microtransactions and the Riseof T-Comm erce -- Strange Bedfellows -- Big Data and Information Visualization -- The Trillions Bubble -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.