By Brian M. Kleiner, Ph.D.
It has been a tough season for my football team. They have experienced (as have their fans) the extremes of success – as high as #4 in the National polls and as low as, well, the season is not yet over so suffice it to say in the unranked lower percentile. When I first followed this team being in the top 10 was merely an optimist’s vision; however, for many years now nationally televised bowl games and championships have become routine. Similarly, Human Systems Integration (HSI) has come a long way, but has it arrived or does it have a long way to go? Since its historical and military roots are well known, allow an arm chair academician to muse about three possible paths for the future. In many ways, the manner and direction in which the readership reacts and responds to these paths will largely determine which will come to fruition. In this sense, the reader is more a player than a spectator.