Over the last several decades, the electronics, software, and communications industries have opened a door to a future that will include things such as the National Information Infrastructure, automated manufacturing, and the burgeoning marketplace of information products … Currently, there is a debate about the principles that should guide government investment in science and technology … a science and technology strategy will be used as a guide to achieve our national and economic security goals.
Predictor: Jones, Anita K.
Prediction, in context:In a June, 1994 keynote speech she delivered at the first Grace Hopper Conference for women in computing, Anita Jones, director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense in the Clinton Administration, says: ”To the Nation, investing in technology is investing in America’s future: a growing economy with higher-skilled, higher-wage jobs for American workers; a cleaner environment where energy efficiency increases profits and reduces pollution; a stronger, more competitive private sector able to maintain U.S. leadership in critical world markets; an educational system where every student is challenged; and an inspired scientific and technological research community focused on ensuring not just our national security but our very quality of life. The writer Graham Greene said that ‘from time to time, a door opens and lets the future in.’ Over the last several decades, the electronics, software, and communications industries have opened a door to a future that will include things such as the National Information Infrastructure, automated manufacturing, and the burgeoning marketplace of information products … Currently, there is a debate about the principles that should guide government investment in science and technology … a science and technology strategy will be used as a guide to achieve our national and economic security goals. Some of the fundamental foundations of this strategy are: Invest in basic research … ; accelerate the transition of technology from the laboratory to the user; enhance our economic security through closer cooperation and integration of university, industry and government performers; reduce the cost of development and acquire new systems and sustain them while in service.”
Biography:Anita Jones was chair of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Computing, Information and Communications and the Defense Director of Research and Engineering in the early 1990s, during the development of the Strategic Implementation Plan. She is the author of dozens of papers and many books. (Technology Administrator/Developer.)
Date of prediction: June 9, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Role of Govt./Industry
Name of publication: Keynote Speech: First Grace Hopper Conference
Title, headline, chapter name: None
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://gos.sbc.edu/j/jonesa.html
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