Higher Education
Higher education is positioned to make extensive use of the NII to enhance the delivery of academic programs and to enrich their content by broadening the mix of inputs and participants.
Higher education is positioned to make extensive use of the NII to enhance the delivery of academic programs and to enrich their content by broadening the mix of inputs and participants.
One possibility is that high-performance computing in the future will involve networking dozens to thousands of workstations and other computers in different locations. Initially these computers will be running applications in the background and at night; but at some future time, people may collaborate through relatively continuous collaborative computing.
New network capabilities and technologies will generate a continuing flow of new network applications that will lead to significant changes in the conduct of research. If development of high-performance computing and communications technologies in academia and industry continues, network capabilities should expand at rates that may initially exceed the demand generated by the science community.
The use of networking for K-12 education is perhaps one of the hopes we have in this country for repairing what is now accepted as a “broken” educational system. Large though it may be, the cost of providing our youth access to the NII’s capabilities must be measured in terms of our increasing need for an educated, highly motivated U.S. work force.
Our belief is that the process of providing electronic editions of the news would take off by 1995. Compare it to how TV got started in the early 1940s … with just a few sets and limited programming until more and more people started to get them.’ He predicts that this electronic newspaper will not become fully competitive with print media until about 2010.
We don’t know what’s going to happen … For sure there won’t be a single outcome – meaning the answer to News in the Future is the tablet-sized, electronic flat panel, or online networks, or the Daily Me. There’s a sense within the research facility that the right answers will be multiple. Knight-Ridder might have the right answer, Tribune Co. might have the right answer. There might be six or seven right answers. There just a sense that there’s an awful lot to be done
The newspaper of the future as the “Daily Me” – a totally personalized newspaper tailored directly to each reader’s taste. If you’re a Boston Red Sox fan working in a patent law firm, partial to quirky news stories but deeply interested in foreign affairs, your edition of the paper will reflect those preferences. My edition, emphasizing economic and political news, music, entertainment and arena football, may contain some of the same stories, but not all.
Whereas we all were going down separate streets – audio, video, online – now it’s all sort of coming together, and we need to sit down together to operate it properly.
The newspaper’s future is absolutely vital. The only newspaper companies that are going to get murdered on this are the ones that stand back.
It’s wonderful that we are able to supply our readers with sports scores on demand and stats going back to 1938. But the real reason we are protected by the First Amendment – and the Home Shopping Network isn’t – is that we have to do good. We shine light in dark places, find out things people don’t want us to find out. I would hate to see people get too seduced by the technology and forget that.