Information Highway
The implications of such a knowledge-access tool is that the Internet will become as useful to you as the books on your shelf or as the encyclopedia at the library.
Subtopic: General
Net Gains: Information, Technology & Culture; Breaking the Box
Within the next five years the entire American economy is going to be reshaped around these new digital networks. Telecommuting, teleconferencing, telemedicine, teleputing will change from buzzwords into basic fabric of business and life.
From Internet to Infobahn
Because a speedy Info Superhighway should boost productivity, create new markets, and be a model for the rest of the world, the country that can get this set up first will have a significant advantage in the international marketplace.
From Internet to Infobahn
In five years, industry distinctions will blur and we’ll just have a series of companies using a variety of technologies.
Chapter 13: Enabling Technologies
On-demand digital video and multimedia applications promise exciting services. Customers click a remote-control pad to order and instantly receive a film or show from a library of thousands of programs. School students wander through a multimedia book that offers text, sound, and video clips, or play interactive games with other people from all over the world.
Visions of the 21st Century Communications: Is the Shortage of Radio Spectrum for Broadband Networks of the Future a Self-Made Problem?
It could be like marijuana – where you have tight rules but they don’t get enforced. And, after a while the rules become unenforceable. I’d hate to see us move in that direction. I’d prefer to have us face up to the fact that there’s a change needed here, and we would much prefer to work within the laws. But the point you raise is a very good one. There’s a heck of a lot of stuff you can do (using the spectrum) without getting caught.
Chapter 12: Digital Convergence on the Data Highway
Like a beacon, the Internet flashes a bright signal to telephone, cable, common carrier, wireless, and computer software, and hardware companies. The signal reads, “This way to the Future-Profits Ahead.”
An Amalgam of Popular Fictions About the Internet, Including Brief Trips to China and The City of No Illusions
With millions of users posting messages to the network, the valuable gets lost in the dross … With everyone able to upload their works to the network, the Internet begins to resemble publisher’s slush piles. It’s up to the reader to separate out the dregs. What’s missing from the network are genuine editors.
Chapter 11: Finding What You’re Looking For
Combined with the latest Internet browsers, the World Wide Web promises to make the Internet a comfortable environment for everyone, including computer-phobic people.
Visions of the 21st Century Communications: Is the Shortage of Radio Spectrum for Broadband Networks of the Future a Self-Made Problem?
Our particular concern is that well-meaning government administrators, responsible for control of the radio spectrum space, are making seemingly innocent decisions that could have disastrous unforeseen consequences. It could even cause our networks of the future to be unnecessarily expensive and less capable than if a wider appreciation of what’s really happening was better understood.