The Unpredictable Certainty: White Papers

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The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000

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0-309-59665-3

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The Unpredictable Certainty

This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project's final report, The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000, which was published in the spring of 1996. That report was disseminated widely and was well received by its sponsors and a varie…

The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000

Are there any dominant trends in the evolution of a global or national information infrastructure (NII) for which there is no specification, no overall plan, and no institutional mechanism for reaching consensus about what it is or what it should be? That question motivated the NII 2000 project, which sought to characterize the technology deployment, market expectations, and proposed activities…