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There’s an elephant in the room. The 1998 Asilomar Report proposed a ten-year grand challenge, an "Information Utility." Make it easy for everyone to store, organize, access, and analyze the majority of human information online.
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The 1998 Asilomar Report proposed a ten-year grand challenge, an • "Information Utility." • Make it easy for everyone to store, organize, access, and analyze the majority of human information online.
The CRA Grand Challenges Conference proposed equally lofty and urgent goals. • Systems You Can Count On: • Technology that makes applications reliable, secure, available, trouble-free, and evolvable. By 2010, there is a prototype of a trustworthy and open information infrastructure. This system will be secure, available, evolvable, and "eternal".
There is a disconnect between the challenges and milestones and current research questions and methodology.
The Choice before us: • Continue with the status quo, or Embrace our stated challenges and confront the disconnect.
If not this group, then who? If not now, then when?