Net Centricity allows Military, Civil, Commercial and Personal operations to be executed with the
participants asynchronous in time and space. This allows significant improvements in speed, flexibility,
and performance over the Industrial Age model where all must be at the factory or office at the same
time. The impact is similar to that of the introduction of the automobile into the synchronous world of
trains and planes in the transportation field. Achieving these benefits requires significant technological
and social changes to be instituted.
As communications bandwidth becomes ever less costly and more widely available, we will be able
to not only allow people to process information as they see fit but also allow multiple individuals and
organizations to have direct and simultaneous access to information and to each other. We will also be
able to support richer interactions between and among individuals