Developing software to allow effective collaboration. Ensuring privacy and reliability of the information infrastructure. Determining how employers, employees, and the self-employed can respond to changes. Workers have access to jobs regardless of proximity to population centers. Workers can live where they want, not needing to be near jobs.
Workplace can better accommodate individual needs.
Ensuring privacy of information repositories. Developing robotics and remote visualization methods to support applications such as telepresent surgery. Doctors use teleconferencing and telesensing to interview and examine patients. Surgical procedures can be demonstrated with Internet-based video. High-end systems provide expert advice.