# Presentation: 181818

## Networking the World

- Joseph Bordogna
- National Science Foundation
- http://www.nsf.gov/bordogna
- 26 June 1998

**Networking the World**

## A 21st Century World

- Distributed
- Intelligence

- Complex
- Technologies

- Diverse
- Workforce

- Creative
- Transformation

- Global
- Economy

- Infrastructure
- Renewal

- Finite
- Resources

- Sustainable
- Development

- Career-Long
- Learning

- Continuous
- Innovation

## Ig-Nobel Prize for 1994

- For the *Heisenberg Certainty Principle*:

- “If your position is everywhere,
-  your momentum is zero.”

- --  National Public Radio
-     NSF Grant No. 93-000000

## Innovation System

- Analysis
- Reduction

- Discovery of
- New Knowledge,
- Basic Laws

- Societal Needs
- The Public Good
- Natural Capital

- Synthesis
- Integration

- Design
- Manufacture
- Maintenance

- Capital
- Formation &
- Investment

- Devices
- Processes
- Systems

- Ideas
- Information

**Innovation**
**Wealth Creation**
**Sustainable Development**

- Science

- Policy Context

- Economic Context

- Technology

- Engineering

## Innovation vis-a-vis Productivity

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**The source of wealth is something specifically human:  *****KNOWLEDGE***
**Knowledge applied to tasks we already know how to do is *****PRODUCTIVITY***
**Knowledge applied to tasks that are new and different is *****INNOVATION***

***Managing for the Future:  The 1990s and Beyond***
**Peter F. Drucker, 1992**

## Complex Technologies & Global MarketsComparison of Top 30 Exports, 1970 & 1994

- “Economic well being in the future will likely go to those who are successful in innovating complex technologies.”

- Complex Technologies & Global Markets**Comparison of Top 30 Exports, 1970 & 1994**

_**1970**_

_**1994**_

**Simple Process**

***58%***

**Simple Product**

***8%***

**Complex Process**

***31%***

**Complex Product**

***59%***

## The Complex Whole

- “The past three centuries of science have been predominantly reductionist, attempting to break complex systems into simple parts, and those parts, in turn, into simpler parts.  The reductionist program has been spectacularly successful, and will continue to be so.  But it has often left a vacuum:  How do we use the information gleaned about the parts to build up a theory of the whole?  The deep difficulty here lies in the fact that **the complex whole may exhibit properties that are not readily explained by understanding the parts**.  The complex whole, in a completely nonmystical sense, can often exhibit collective properties, ‘emergent’ features that are lawful in their own right.”

- Stuart Kauffman
- _At Home in the Universe_, 1994

## The Credentials/Skill SetThe Year 2010

- Handle projects from initial conception of an idea through to product realization
- Understand, nurture, and capitalize sustainably on nature
- Be alpha-numeric literate
- Articulate team goals, influence others to invest in them, evince trust at all levels
- Envision rational solution scenarios to open-ended challenges
- Act as catalyst and master integrator in multifaceted, multidisciplinary projects
- Understand and practice quality issues

## The Credentials/Skill SetThe Year 2010

- Manifest a strategic intent in design
- Enable comfort in interpersonal relations
- Pursue standards-based practice
- Practice creative transformation
- Focus on innovation
- Sense the coupling among seemingly disparate issues
- Make sense of complexity
- Contribute to, extract from, participate in the world’s collective intelligence base
- Be an astute observer of strategic inflection points and anticipate their consequences at the moment of inflection

## Career FundamentalsThe Year 2010

- Simplicity

- Complexity

- System

- Productivity

- Innovation

- Commodity

- Design

- Team

- Cognition

- Making & Moving

- What was, and is harder to get

- What is, and will be

- Features not gleaned from the parts

- A 20th century focus

- A 21st century focus

- What all that is new, becomes

- Manifestation of intent

- Intellectual diversity

- Major computer-communications tool

- Adam Smith’s stuff

## Societal Image of the EngineerThe Year 2010

- Astute maker
- Trusted innovator
- Ensurer of safety/quality of life
- Change agent
- Master integrator
- Enterprise enabler
- Technology steward
- Knowledge handler
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## Virtual Computing and Communications

- Synthesis of mobile, wireless, and networks with voice and image interface
- Global positioning; satellite networks; smart antennas
- Distributed wireless networks of sensors and actuators for medicine, environmental monitoring, transportation systems
- Related advances in software, database, interface systems with commercial and economic applications

## Renewal Energy Systems and Power Management

- Deregulation and reconfiguration of domestic and industrial power industries
- Sensing and monitoring of power utilization
- Renewable energy vehicles and transportation systems
- New battery technologies and power sources; control and exploitation of information systems for effective use
- Environmental impacts of changes in energy and power use

## Nanotechnology and Quantum Engineering

- Future generations of microelectronics/micromagnetics
- Reaching limitations of current physical models and methods
- New types of devices based on quantum principles
- Recent example is resonant tunneling diode
- Quantum computing
- Still speculative, but of tremendous fundamental interest

## Intelligent Systems and Machines

- Principles of learning and adaptation in intelligent machines
- New paradigms of embedded computation
- Hybrid discrete, continuous, and symbolic systems
- Integrated microsystems
- Sensing, actuators and embedded computation integrated into microsystems
- Micro- and molecular robotics
- Applications of intelligent systems to:
- Medicine: microsurgery assistants, implanted sensors and artificial organs
- Manufacturing: micromanipulation and microassembly of new classes of products; nanoassembly of new materials
- Transportation: smart vehicles and intelligent highway systems

## Molecular Bioengineering and Bioinstrumentation

- Integration of microelectronics with molecular biology and medicine in terms of both theoretical principles and applications
- Molecular bioelectronics; molecular computing
- Applications to medical devices and sensors, artificial organs, environmental sensors
- Chemical information systems
- Communications channels and sensing principles based on chemical/molecular processes

## Hardening of the Categories

- 						***Bob Miller***
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