Ict Futures

<b>Learn all about the major trends and future advancements in ICT!</b><p><i>ICT Futures</i> 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. </p><p>The experienced author-team, consisting of experts from both industry and academia, addresses:</p><ul><li>The interaction between <i>people and technology</i> - 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.</li><li>The underlying ICT <i>infrastructure</i> - 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.</li><li>ICT tec