High-Performance Computing Communications and networked communication can be key in future National Challenges: … Services provide the underlying network-capable building blocks upon which the National Challenges can be constructed. They will form the basis of the ubiquitous “Information Web” of the 21st century. Services bridge the gap between the communications bitways and the application-specific software components that implement the National Challenges.
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 National Challenges: These are large-scale, distributed applications of high social and economic impact that have been identified as containing an extensive information-processing component and which could benefit greatly by building an underlying information infrastructure. Specific applications include Digital Libraries, Manufacturing, Education and Training, Health Care (Trauma Care, Medical Information Infrastructure), Environmental Monitoring, Crisis Management, and Government Information Delivery. Services provide the underlying network-capable building blocks upon which the National Challenges can be constructed. They will form the basis of the ubiquitous ‘Information Web’ of the 21st century. Services bridge the gap between the communications bitways and the application-specific software components that implement the National Challenges.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
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: 3. Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications Program Elements-3.1 Overview
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.