Introduction


As a foundation for the remaining chapters, we explore the four fundamental ingredients of the new information world we introduced in the introductory chapter:

  • Communications. Modern, high-value, multifunctional communications methods, such as instant messaging and others

  • Data. Fundamental data-everywhere devices such as radio frequency identification devices (RFID) and video, among many others

  • Networking. Pervasive everywhere networking, primarily the wireless family

  • Infochange. Metadata and XML to bring it all together by virtue of data now being able to describe itself as it travels

In later chapters that delve deeper into specific technical and business details, we refer to these fundamentals because they create the foundation of the Inescapable Data vision.



    Inescapable Data. Harnessing the Power of Convergence
    Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence (paperback)
    ISBN: 0137026730
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 159

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