Preparing for the 21st Century: Technology and the Nation's Future (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Preparing for the 21st Century: Technology and the Nation's Future
Preparing for the 21st Century: Technology and the Nation's Future
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Private companies invest financial and human resources in (leveloping new technologies and adapting existing technologies to meet perceived needs. Several key objectives set forth in Academy complex reports can help guide the development and implementation of public policies related to technology.
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· Support experimentation at the federal, state, and local levels with a wide range of public and private initiatives for increasing the quantity and quality of school-to-work transition programs and of jobrelated training and continuing education for the nations workforce. Extend protection of intellectual property rights internationally to maintain current incentives for companies to innovate and invest in research and development.
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In select cases, the government also has a rationale for supporting the clevelopment of commercial technologies beyond those explicitly linked to federal agency missions. For example, there is a role for government in facilitation of the development of"path-breaking technologies" those with the potential to create major new industries or transform existing industries and thereby yiel(1 high returns to society as a whole but whose (levelopment poses risks too high to attract sufficient private-sector investment.
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Today, information technology and its applications continue to advance steadily. Computers and communication technology will become even more valuable to society as they are increasingly able to recognize and simulate speech, build huge automated libraries, control robots, and even create virtual worlds where neonle can learn.
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Current national cryptography policy is not adequate to support the information-security requirements of an information society. US national policy should be changed to support the broad use of cryptography in ways that take into account competing US needs and desires for Individual privacy, international economic compet;tiveness, law enforcement, national security, and world leadership.
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An entity called the National Spatial Data Infrastructure acquires, processes, stores, and distributes the information. Data-sharing can minimize cluplication, reduce long-term costs, and streamline analysis and decision-making.
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potential workforce are poorly served, particularly with regard to job-related training and continuing education within industry. The United States should foster the timely adoption and elective use of commercially valuable technology throughout the economy by supporting experimentation at the federal, state, and local levels with a wide range of public and private initiatives for increasing the quantity and quality of school-to-work transition programs and of job-related training and continuing eclucanon for the nations workforce.
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copyrights, allow firms to protect their investments in innovation and R&D. But with innovations traveling so quickly around the globe, protection of intellectual-property rights needs to extend internationally to maintain current incentives for companies to innovate and invest in R&D.
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(E-2, E-4) The ability of the United States to capture the benefits of the global technical enterprise will clepenct primarily on the success with which private corporations operating within US borders seize the opportunities presented by the emerging global technology base.
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was established in 1964, under the charter of the NAS, as a parallel organization of distinguished engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of members, sharing with the NAS its responsibilities for advising the federal government.
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