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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. Objects

Author : Richard Thomas Watson

Published in: Capital, Systems, and Objects

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

To a computer scientist, an object is something that can send and receive a set of standardized digital messages. Your maps app is an object. It can receive a message containing the latitude and longitude of your current location from a GPS app and then send a message to your map app to show your position on a map. Software is a collection of communicating objects, with each object performing a specialized function or coordinating the action of other objects through messaging.

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Footnotes
1
A term we introduce to describe humans who have digital devices that enable them to send and receive electronic messages and thus behave like active objects.
 
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This section draws upon Watson, R. T., Zinkhan, G. M., & Pitt, L. F. (2004). Object orientation: a tool for enterprise design. California Management Review, 46(4), 89–110. For a similar perspective, see Davenport, T. H., Thomas, R. J., & Desouza, K. C. (2003). Reusing intellectual assets. Industrial Management, 45(3), 12–13.
 
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Metadata
Title
Objects
Author
Richard Thomas Watson
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Capital, Systems, and Objects

Print ISBN: 978-981-15-9417-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-9418-2

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9418-2_6