The prediction, in brief:

[High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future environmental monitoring.] Environmental monitoring relates to our ability to observe, understand, and predict changes in the environment, both natural and man-made, on scales from seconds to millennia and from local to global. Efforts in this IITA National Challenge area will focus on applying high-performance computing to advance environmental understanding and predictive capabilities, and on integrating multi-agency environmental observing systems (land-based, ocean-based, or satellite-borne) and historical databases using high-speed networks.

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 environmental monitoring.] Environmental monitoring relates to our ability to observe, understand, and predict changes in the environment, both natural and man-made, on scales from seconds to millennia and from local to global. Efforts in this IITA National Challenge area will focus on applying high-performance computing to advance environmental understanding and predictive capabilities, and on integrating multi-agency environmental observing systems (land-based, ocean-based, or satellite-borne) and historical databases using high-speed networks. The NII [National Information Infrastructure] will tie together environmental observing systems, computational resources, historical databases, libraries, scientists, forecasters, and all potential consumers of environmental information to support research, transportation, commerce,education, policy-making, emergency-preparedness, recreation, and day-to-day activities. This will provide ready access to the best possible, most up-to-date and comprehensive information needed to address the range of environmental questions, whether they be as mundane as ‘Will it rain this afternoon?’ or as profound as ‘Is the ozone hole intensifying?'”

Date of prediction: December 1, 1993

Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information

Subtopic: Crisis Management

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.