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2 Charting a Path into the Future
2 Charting a Path into the Future
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According to a recent study by the Boston Consulting Group, the United States ranks eighth in the world in its environment for innovation, demonstrating the need for a national strategy to make the United States competitive with other nations.1 In addition, said David, a national strategy needs an international component, because so many of the problems countries face today transcend geographic borders. Esko Aho agreed that both national and private-sector strategies are needed.
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The United States and European countries can each have their own strategies, but there must also be an agreement to protect common interests. Eric Haseltine said that the issue is less what the strategy is than who has the strategy.
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This is one making that system work better and of the outputs that we should not allowing it to erode." value." In the private sector, compa- Ray Stata nies realize they have to be represented in emerging countries, which pushes them to establish technical resources outside their boundaries to access talent and markets. Multi-national companies in turn have a tremendous influence on the diffusion of technology.
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their educations to address needs John Seely Brown at the global level. When Amadei has brought civil engineering stu dents into the developing world and asked them to pour concrete, they have no idea how to make concrete, even if they have studied concrete design.
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Just as the developing world taught the devel oped world that land lines are not necessary in a world of cell phones, the developing world can demonstrate the value and use of electronic publications. "This is a very interesting change, because the developing world is going to change it." In response to a question from a forum participant, Negroponte said that, because of the value of communications, he believes that scientific literature should be open and freely accessible anywhere in the world.
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In many cases, this infrastructure has to be replaced or altered, which may give an advantage to nations with less infrastructure that can leapfrog ahead of the United States. Amadei observed that social issues are inevitably intertwined with engineering issues.
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Two-way avenues of communication should be established to permit ideas from outside the United States to work their way into this country. "Americans don't see it.
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The United States needs to reconceive what the broadband infrastructure can do, which will change the discourse. The current head of the Federal Communications Commission intends "to bring some of these changes about," Brown said.
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Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland observed that many university faculty are having trouble shifting their attention toward social-technological systems, in part because universities are still reluc tant to consider collaboration a measure of academic achievement. As additional signs of this lack of commitment, the National Science Foun dation has only $15 million in its budget for social computational sys tems, and NAE does not have a natural home for systems engineering or social media technologies.
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It brings the left brain and the right brain and also brings the heart into the equation." David agreed that the closer engineering gets to the application of ideas, the more it will attract women. There are huge opportunities for getting closer to the impact of what engineers do.
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new methods [will] create The new Chicago public library has local, national, and global a huge digital media learning cen- communities that will have their ter where students from inner-city impact.
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We are just in the beginning." Bangladeshis now have a mobile device in their hands with the same computing capacity as the Apollo moon lander. "It takes time before we are going to see all these human and social impacts, [but]
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