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The Sustainable Network
The Accidental Answer for a Troubled Planet
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- Preface
- Chapter 1: I Am a Node
- + Chapter 2: What Is the Network: How Does It Work?
- Chapter 3: Green by Accident
- Chapter 4: What Makes the Network Sustainable?
- Chapter 5: Broadband: What Is It?
- Chapter 6: Can the Internet Hit a Wall?
- Chapter 7: The Mobile Me
- Chapter 8: Take It with You
- Chapter 9: The Network’s Green Factor
- + Chapter 10: Carbon Footprints
- Chapter 11: Net Efficiencies: Maximizing Resources While Minimizing Waste
- + Chapter 12: What’s So Smart About
- + Chapter 13: Dematerialization
- + Chapter 14: Detravelization
- + Chapter 15: What Is the Network: How Is Telecommuting Enabled?
- + Chapter 16: Pushing the Boundaries
- + Chapter 17: Data Center
- Chapter 18: Energy Efficiency Measurement
- Chapter 19: Doing Good by Doing Right
- Chapter 20: Is Broadband Really That Important?
- Chapter 21: Sustainable Providers
- Chapter 22: Net Neutrality
- Chapter 23: Tearing Down Economic Boundaries
- Chapter 24: Information Is King
- Chapter 25: Evolution
- Chapter 26: Network Time
- Chapter 27: Political Sustainability
- Chapter 28: Rocking the Vote
- Chapter 29: The Right to Network Usage
- Chapter 30: Challenges of the Networked World
- Chapter 31: Network Defenses Dependon How Traffic Is Sent
- + Chapter 32: I Am on the Net, Therefore I Am Vulnerable
- Chapter 33: Antisocial Network Engineering
- Chapter 34: Protect the Net
- Chapter 35: The Last Best Place to Attack: Your Mobile
- + Chapter 36: Government’s Role in Protecting the Network's Integrity
- Chapter 37: 21st-Century Warfare: Cyberattacks
- Chapter 38: Social Sustainability
- + Chapter 39: The Health Net
- Chapter 40: Not by Accident: Social Networking
- Chapter 41: Our Relationship with the Network
- Glossary: A Quick Cheat Sheet of Common Terms
- Notes
- Index
"Companies with a stake in the technology industry or that have staked on the Internet (ala Google or Amazon or any of the thousands of small ecommerce companies around the world) are likely to pluck multiple nuggets of wisdom from her book." >
-- Heather Clancy, business journalist >
What technologies do we need to solve the complex environmental, economic, social, and political challenges facing us today? As this thought-provoking book reveals, one tool for enacting change is already at our fingertips: the global network. Consider the private domains of companies, governments, and institutions along with the public Internet: we have an immense communications network that connects billions of people in ways we never thought possible. In this book, author Sarah Sorensen clearly demonstrates why this network is the best sustainable technology available to help us tackle a wide range of problems. If each of us represents a node on this network, then it's time we realize the potential we hold. _The Sustainable Network_ is a call to action, urging individuals, governments, markets, and organizations to put the power of this network to good use. * Discover how the sustainable network connects us all, with examples of how it's already effecting change * Understand how this network magnifies the impact of even the smallest change and newest idea * Explore the role that various market and political forces play * Learn how the network can be improved to better address environmental, economic, and social conditions * Get practical advice that you or your business can follow now
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Computers > Data Modeling & Design
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Publication year : 2009
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 547

