[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future electronic commerce: Electronic commerce integrates communications, data-management, and security services, to allow business applications within different organizations to automatically interchange information.
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: ”[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future electronic commerce: Electronic commerce integrates communications, data-management, and security services, to allow business applications within different organizations to automatically interchange information. Electronic commerce applies and integrates these infrastructure services to support business and commercial applications including financial transactions such as electronic bidding, ordering and payments, and exchange of digital product specifications and design data.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: E-commerce
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: 3.5 National Challenges
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.