Where is our largest technological plan?
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Where is our largest technological plan?
By J.C.Melo The period, more or less one year before September
11. The White House Technology Advisor worked in the mankind
largest plan until now, to install a fantastic communications
and IT network of 100 Mb/s in 100 million houses in the next 10
years. A plan bigger than the Kennedy's plan to place a man in
the Moon in 10 years.
The plan was being developed with a lot of priorities, 470
companies had already petitioned to participate and/or to
invest, they discussed the more suitable communications protocol
among the existent ones - as the H.323 - and the new ones, etc.
The forecast was to announce it until the end of 2002.
That plan had very big goals, among which I can remember:
01. e-Surgery 02. e-Physician 03. e-Education (all levels) 04.
e-Training (for companies) 05. e-Business (B2B, B2C, C2B, and by
voice) 06. Iterative TV 07. e-Movies 08. e-Security (Federal,
State, Country, homes) 09. e-Elections 10. TV telephony 11.
e-Police 12. e-Government (all between the government and the
Citizens) 13. e-Theater 14. e-Conferences 15. e-Libraries 16.
e-Sciences 17. e-Polls 18. e-Management 19. TeleCommuter (home
work) 20. All IT processing and storage through distant data
centers 21. An estimated 1,000,000 new companies
and more e-Xs that you can imagine.
In every moment that I thought of this plan, I lamented two
things: first, to be 73-years old and probably cannot
accompanies him in the next 30 years, and second, the dozens of
technological ideas that I could suggest.
And then the September 11 happened, the main national priority
moved to security matters, the investments - government and
privates - moved to another directions and the people worried
more about the moment than with the future.
But in order to survive, without the smallest doubt we need this
technological plan in order to maintain the world technological
hegemony of the United States in the next 30-40 years and as a
result, our world economic hegemony. And as you realize, I am
talking about our children and grandsons future.
Now we are choosing a new President but any that comes to be the
chosen, again that plan must have a very high priority, and for
its greatness and for its long duration naturally he doesn't
depend on a specific Party or a specific government.
Now we have a lot of communication products and services -
mobiles and its thousand of applications, digital TV, etc - and
a lot of IT applications and services - CRM Customer
Relationship Management with sophisticated voice and
bidirectional Call Centers, ERP Enterprise Resources Planning,
Voice over IP Voip, BI Business Intelligence, Data Mining, AI
Artificial Intelligence, GSI, the wide Internet and its thousand
of applications, etc - but all those are small embryos of what
is possible to do.
What we need to do?
As the plan is natural and technologically possible and in its
largest portion depends more on the private initiatives and less
on the government, my suggestion is the creation of a
nonpolitical Foundation to fight for this plan in the White
House, the Congress, the media, the society, the industries, the
colleges, etc., and naturally to integrate all those sides.
I have the freedom of initiatives in my blood and for me nothing
is more powerful than a very true entrepreneur. After all, those
entrepreneurs created the successful United States, therefore we
need only to repeat the recipe. For ever.