Being Online: On Computing, Data, the Internet, and the Cloud
- Length: 336 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Arcade
- Publication Date: 2021-10-05
- ISBN-10: 1951627792
- ISBN-13: 9781951627799
- Sales Rank: #1039301 (See Top 100 Books)
A pioneer of cloud computing and big data offers his vision of the future world taking shape around us.
Jian Wang was the founder and architect of Alibaba’s cloud and has been the driving force behind its technology innovations. He was also the founder of the City Brain initiative to develop a new digital infrastructure for sustainable cities. Being Online is his meditation on the moment we are in, as the digital era shifts to the internet era, spawning new innovations at a seemingly dizzying pace: cloud computing, 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, wearables, robots, virtual reality, the internet of things, blockchain, and more. For Wang, the invisible hand that connects them is being online. The conjunction of computing, data, and the internet has erased the difference between being online and off. When computing can be done in the cloud, it is on the road to becoming a utility. When data is connected, making it big, its usefulness multiplies exponentially in unforeseeable ways, as does its value.
This moment will be as transformative for humanity as Henry Ford’s production line. Data is changing the nature of business. Computing is reshaping the economy. The cloud will help us do things we could never do before, at scales that were previously impossible. It will reshape our vision of the world, as electrification once did and, more recently, the transition from analog to digital. While telling the story of Alibaba’s breakthroughs and the development of his own understanding of the internet, Jian Wang’s visionary book lays out the implications of this shift and how to think about being online.
Front Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword by Jack Ma One: Confusion, Dislocation, and Entanglements in the Digital Era Confusion between Data and the Internet Dislocation of the Cloud and Computing Entanglement of Being Offline and Being Online Two: The Evolution from Being Digital to Being Online Being Online Is the True Nature of the Internet Atoms Become Bits, Bits Go Online The Map: An Evolution from Analog to Digital to Online Being Online Is a Brand-New Continent Three: The Evolution from Information to Data Data Is More Valuable than Information Data Is a Strategic Resource The Telescope, the Microscope, and Radar Believing in Data Is a Kind of Self-Confidence Four: The Evolution from Computers to Computing Computing Is a New Public Utility There Is No Public or Private Cloud, Only the Utility Cloud Apsara: Driving Computing to Be a Public Service De-IOE: Computing Is Replacing Computers Five: The Mobile Internet Is the Internet of Being Online The Clamor of Mobile and the Silence of Being Online Apps Are Good, but the Web Is Great YunOS: An Operating System Created for Being Online It’s Not the Internet of Things, It’s the Internet of All Things Under the Sun Six: Pursuing the Dream of the Online Cloud Making Computing Online Breaking through the Fog Surrounding Cloud Computing Tradition and Innovation Hand in Hand; Large and Small on the Same Stage Computing Becomes a New Capability of Human Beings Data Is a New Natural Resource, a New Source of Wealth in the World Seven: From Menlo Park to Yunqi Town A Park Lights Up the World Yunqi, Built for Developers and Start-ups The Apsara Conference: A Computing Conference Yunqi’s Journey with Computing Eight: The Fusion of the Internet, Data, and Computing The Internet Becomes Infrastructure and a Platform for Innovation Data Becomes a Means of Production and a Type of Natural Resource Computing Becomes a Public Utility The Coming of the Computing Economy Nine: From Moore’s Law to the Laws of Being Online Fire and Electricity The Laws of Being Online Shadows in the Sunshine Ten: Humanity’s Self-Confidence Showing Respect for Others, Being Confident in Oneself City Brain: Moonshot Initiative for the Next Decade Epilogue Acknowledgments Permissions Acknowledgments Index
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