Metropolis and SOA Governance Richard Veryard and Philip Boxer
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Summary: In the service
economy, we expect service-oriented systems to emerge that are
increasingly large and complex, but that are also capable of
behaviors that are increasingly differentiated. As we shall see,
this is one of the key challenges of Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA), and is discussed in this article. (20
printed pages) From Time to Space The defining technology of the
past thousand years was the clock, and the prevailing
technological imperative has been to save time, to make things
go faster or better than before. See Box 1. Box 1. Chronarchy.
The Power of the Clock. "I was your slave, now you are mine: I
am Time." (Incredible String Band) Modern mechanical clocks with
falling weights were invented around a thousand years ago. The
invention is often attributed to Pope Sylvester II, who was an
accomplished mathematician and scientist before becoming pope.
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