Historical databases of environmental observations and information distributed across the nation at scores of sites can be seamlessly integrated along with other-agency environmental databases into a virtual national database and placed at the fingertips of the researcher, policy maker, lawyer, businessman, educator, or any other user; national policy with regard to sustainable development can be made with the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and best environmental information available, integrated with economic and human-dimension information; the geometrically growing volume of environmental data and information can be effectively and automatically quality- controlled, integrated, synthesized, archived, and retrieved.
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: ”The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) mission is to observe, understand, and predict changes in the environment … With IITA enabling technologies, NOAA can make literally thousands of environmental observations from across the nation and the globe available instantly to the analyst or forecaster; the agency’s environmental observing systems, whether land-based, ocean-based, or satellite-borne, can be integrated with observing systems of other agencies or other nations into a virtual national or global environmental monitoring system; its historical databases of environmental observations and information distributed across the nation at scores of sites can be seamlessly integrated along with other-agency environmental databases into a virtual national database and placed at the fingertips of the researcher, policy maker, lawyer, businessman, educator, or any other user; national policy with regard to sustainable development can be made with the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and best environmental information available, integrated with economic and human-dimension information; the geometrically growing volume of environmental data and information can be effectively and automatically quality- controlled, integrated, synthesized, archived, and retrieved.”
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: Appendix A: Relationship of Agency Missions to IITA
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: Anderson, Janna Quitney