Companies will be able to band together to jointly manufacture goods. This will require rapid tailoring and composition of shared information services such as inventory control, work scheduling, and product delivery.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993, recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”Companies will be able to band together to jointly manufacture goods. This will require rapid tailoring and composition of shared information services such as inventory control, work scheduling, and product delivery. Potential machine tool vendors and other manufacturing support companies will be willing to provide simulations of new process-control and planning software to enable companies to test before they buy. In addition, software specialty companies will provide access to powerful computer-aided design tools that are currently too expensive for purchase by small companies. This is economically viable because a small company can access both the software and the human expertise that lies behind it, through coordinated online consulting services.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: 2.5 Advanced Manufacturing
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Kohlhagen, Kelly C.