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... In May 1986, the Board's number one concern was competitiveness. How can the United States best ensure the continued leadership of its computer science and technology enterprise in the face of intensified global competition ?
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... We wanted first to build a record of reports dealing with critical national issues. Computing the Future, CSTB's study of the scope and direction of computer science and technology, was published in 1992.
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... How can they be provided in a timely and effective fashion and integrated into daily activities to enhance national productivity ? The first two major studies the Board published were Toward a National Research Network in July 1988 and The National Challenge in Computer Science and Technology in September 1988.
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... In his book The Transformation of War, Martin van Creveld argues that the low-intensity conflicts that have become the norm since World War II will become far more prevalent and will spread to developed countries, instead of being confined primarily to the Third World. He writes: "As the spread of low-intensity conflict causes trinitarian structures to come tumbling down, strategy will focus on obliterating the existing line between those who fight and those who watch, pay, and suffer." By trinitarian structures, van Creveld means the division among the state, the military, and the peopled Here are two specific examples of the difficulty in separating military assets from civilian assets.
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... Should the lead role be played by an existing entity, a combination of existing entities properly coordinated, or a government structure created for this purpose? This is an exceptionally complex and important question that I will not pursue here.
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... For instance, given the fact that we do not have a nationwide server for infrastructure, let us say telecommunications, no major trade can now be made that says this is in the national interest and therefore you must do it the way we could do in providing universal telephone service 50 years ago. This complicates the problem a lot.
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... 5Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
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