The federal government now has a unique opportunity to build on [the success of NREN] through investment to further advance the underlying technologies (to support the technological underpinnings for the services that will ride over the network(s) and to connect users with the information they seek) and to develop quality information resources (e.g., databases consisting of government information or modules for educational curricula for which information infrastructure is a tool) that will further the use of the networks.
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: ”The need for greatly expanded technological leadership – of the kind that drove the NREN program – both in the development and the use of network-related technologies has emerged with the NII initiative. This need is noted both in the 1994 report on the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program and in the FY95 Clinton-Gore administration’s budget proposals, whose introduction comments on the end of the Cold War and the growth in international competitiveness as motivations for a strong research effort. Both the NREN and NII efforts build on a history of Department of Defense (DOD) support for network-related technology and associated technology transfer; the Internet, in particular, constitutes a major technology transfer success story. The federal government now has a unique opportunity to build on that success through investment to further advance the underlying technologies (to support the technological underpinnings for the services that will ride over the network(s) and to connect users with the information they seek) and to develop quality information resources (e.g., databases consisting of government information or modules for educational curricula for which information infrastructure is a tool) that will further the use of the networks.”
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: Paying the Price
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/rtif/
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