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Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
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John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
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Interop:
The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
This event requires an RSVP.
This event includes a book signing
DateMay
30
Wednesday
May 30, 2012 6:00 PM ET |
LocationWasserstein Hall
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store, Harvard Law School Library, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society welcome JOHN PALFREY, the Harvard's Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and URS GASSER, Executive Director of the Berkman Center, for a discussion of their new book, Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems.
The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money revolutionized debt markets and simplified trade, and the standardization of credit networks has allowed for the purchase of goods using money deposited in a bank half a world away. These advancements did not eradicate the different systems they affected; instead, each system has been transformed so that it can interoperate with systems all over the world, while still preserving local diversity.
As Palfrey and Gasser show, interoperability is a critical aspect of any successful system—and now it is more important than ever. Today we are confronted with challenges that affect us on a global scale: the financial crisis, the quest for sustainable energy, and the need to reform health care systems and improve global disaster response systems. Interop demonstrates that, in order to get the most out of interoperability while minimizing its risks, we will need to fundamentally revisit our understanding of how it works, and how it can allow for improvements in each of its constituent parts.
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