I recently read The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo and some reflection on my career as a network engineer and consultant.
I've been designing information and communications technology (ICT) networks for the better part of my career. The process, the technology, the methodology have all changed - in some cases dramatically. We no longer build networks for objects to connect to; we build networks to transport information. This may seem a semantic debate, but the two scenarios require very different approaches. And what emerges may be a very different architecture. Building houses for people to live in seems straightforward. But having information like, "all the people are disabled veterans" changes the architecture from a two-floor cape to a single-floor ranch, and alters many other design elements.
Following are the seven thoughts I need to document:
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