Continuing Innovation in Information Technology Workshop Report (2016) / Chapter Skim
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6 Wrap-Up Discussion
6 Wrap-Up Discussion
Pages 67-70
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Looking back over the tremendous technological achievements of the past several decades, some participants said it might be tempting to imagine that each advancement built on its predecessor and laid the foundation for the capabilities to follow. Indeed, to a casual observer, it might seem logical, even inevitable, that the personal computer led to the laptop, the smartphone, and the smart watch, or that the first computer-to-computer connection led to the Internet, to cellular networks, and to Wi-Fi.
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But the But the incentives and incentives and funding structures that drive industry are funding structures that drive not sufficient, alone, to support the highly experimen tal, uncertain, and broad-based basic research that lays industry are not sufficient, the foundation for truly revolutionary innovations. From alone, to support the highly critical infrastructure such as the Internet to techniques and regulations that support cybersecurity, government experimental, uncertain, and and government-funded research has played a central broad-based basic research role in the development of the vast majority of comput er science methods and tools that we depend on today.
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As noted by several attendees, the technologies of the past and present suggest that all of the innovations envisioned for the future -- as well as those we cannot yet imagine -- will likely emerge not from the genius of one person or one company, but from a complex, symbiotic cycle between government-supported long-term applicationengaged research alongside industry-driven solutions and applications. Tomorrow's technologies, like innovations past, are not a foregone conclusion.
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