Technological characteristics of the factory of the future will be influenced by both "science push" and "market pull". Science push relates to the many scientific developments that are being announced from laboratories around the world. ①The manufacturing community is alert to these developments and when creative people visualize opportunities to solve major problems with new scientific developments, they are responsive to initiate major project to attempt to capture a competitive edge. Market pull is the other dimension. The manufacturing community sees opportunities to gain a competitive edge by drawing existing or emerging technologies on to the shop floor, and they are willing to invest in the future. The driving force in both cases is the desire to increase productivity and quality. History has demonstrated that both phenomena are at work in the manufacturing environment. ②Underlying the future of the manufacturing environment of tomorrow are the strategic technologies that the we recognize today as playing an important role in our planning in industrial and university research laboratories. Let me elaborate on what I consider the strategic technologies in the laboratory with both medium and long-range perspectives on the future. My strategic technologies include: new materials (including polymers, alloys, ceramics and composites, and superconductors ), computer engineering, microelectronics, micro-fabrication, photonics, and manufacturing system (automation for machines and processes, new processes, engineering management). The reality of the impact of the strategic technologies which I have mentioned is not an issue. What are the issues include: how rapidly will their impact be left, how will the capital investments required be justified, and how will we educate the workforce to implement and manage them. I believe these issues will be resolved in an evolutionary way rather than as a new industrial revolution. There are already unfortunate examples of failure in attempts to implement individual views of factories of the future. ③The underlying problems will surface when we attempt too much, too soon, and without a thorough knowledge of all of the important features of strategic technologies and of whether they are fit for an effective manufacturing facility: The lack of standards has been recognized as a major deterrent to integration, and major steps have been taken on a national and worldwide basis to correct the situation. We cannot overestimate the power of the human being to adapt and to succeed. We have not yet duplicated this power with the computer. However, we have achieved the ability to use the computer to make the human more productive, more reliable and more powerful. This is perhaps the beginning for developing a more focused view of what we mean by the factory of the future. The issue of strategic technologies is of great importance to the development of the factory of the future. It is a matter of survival. It is implied in the passage that the implementation of new strategic technologies will most probably not succeed if we ______.

A. treat the strategic technologies in an evolutionary way
B. attempt to resolve the issue of strategic technologies too soon in a revolutionary way
C. do not realize the impact of new strategic technologies
D. can not make the computer more productive, reliable and powerful