Specifically expanding and empowering the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and NSF to contribute more broadly to the NII could assure a dynamic outlook on the underlying technology and architecture as well as prepare for the ongoing process (including specification, implementation, and support) of upgrading that technological base.
Predictor: National Research Council
Prediction, in context:In 1994, the NRENaissance Committee, appointed by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, produced a special report titled “Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond.” Among the committee members were Internet pioneers Leonard Kleinrock, David Clark, David Farber, Lawrence Landweber and Robert Kahn. The committee’s goal was to “study issues raised by the shift to a larger, more truly national networking capability.” Among its statements about the blossoming of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) is this: ”Specifically expanding and empowering the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and NSF to contribute more broadly to the NII could assure a dynamic outlook on the underlying technology and architecture as well as prepare for the ongoing process (including specification, implementation, and support) of upgrading that technological base. NII creation still presents leading-edge research challenges and is very interdisciplinary, arenas in which ARPA, in particular, has succeeded, and to which NSF can contribute substantially through its support of both network research and network-based research.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond
Title, headline, chapter name: Leadership in Education
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/rtif/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney