Central Themes
Central Themes
- Major Shifts in Industry Infrastructure
- Use of both inter- and intra- networks for the sales, distribution and use of tools, libraries, design and manufacturing services, etc.
- Standard network-oriented software interfaces for tools, data and services are required
- The “Hollow Terminal” concept and JAVA will be central to the new model
- This will encourage the use of fully-self-contained components (e.g. self-simulating)
- Application of new multi-media technologies to design will have significant impacts in design-decision-support and collaboration
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