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More copies of this ISBNeBook editionsThe Pebble and the Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutionsby Moshe Yudkowsky
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Important revolutions of the past 30 years include the Internet, personal computers, the XML programming language, and the breakup of AT&T. What do they have in common? All are based on innovations that break technology apart. After breaking a technology apart, it still works — phone calls could still be made after the breakup of AT&T — but it is composed of smaller and more flexible pieces that can be used to create new innovations. This process is called "disaggregation," so named because the pieces of the technology that were formerly stuck together are pried apart but not destroyed. Using the simple metaphor of the pebble and the avalanche — prying rocks loose from a mountaintop releases tremendous energy — this book explains the workings and benefits of disaggregation. Author Yudkowsky uses case studies from familiar companies and industries to explain how to generate similar innovations, in the process identifying strategies and tactics that maximize these innovations. Book News Annotation:Now the head of a private consulting firm, Yudkowsky has 20 years of
experience in high technology, including work at Bell Laboratories,
Dialogic, and Intel. In this text, he explores ideas, methods, and
examples of disaggregation--taking things apart--to create useful and
exciting innovations in the areas of business and technology.
Coverage includes an overview of disaggregation and how it can create
revolutions; case studies of revolutions in technology from the 19th,
20th, and 21st centuries demonstrating how they work in detail;
strategies for coping with revolutions; and the author's predictions
about three industries likely to be transformed by disaggregation in
the near future. Academic but accessible to the general reader.
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