Information Highway, The
Information Highway, The | A Global Information Infrastructure Can Benefit the World
In 1993 I wrote in Discover’s October issue that technological innovation was a powerful engine driving our national economic growth. I called for continued research, development, and investment in the new technologies that will lead us into the twenty-first century, and I outlined President Clinton’s vision for the National Information Infrastructure—a seamless web of communication networks, computers, data bases, and consumer electronics that will put vast amounts of information at users’ fingertips and will forever change the way we live, learn, work, and communicate...
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: What Is the Information Highway?
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Chapter 2: How Should the Information Highway Be Developed?
- Development of the Information Highway: An Overview
- The Federal Government Should Expedite the Information Highway
- The Information Highway Should Serve Public Interests over Commerce
- The Private Sector Alone Should Build the Information Highway
- The Information Highway Should Develop According to Consumer Demand
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Chapter 3: Will the Information Highway Benefit Society?
- The Impact of the Information Highway: An Overview
- A Global Information Infrastructure Can Benefit the World
- Internet Bulletin Boards Create a Sense of Community
- The Information Highway Can Promote Environmental Networking
- The Information Highway Can Benefit Blacks
- The Information Highway Benefits Rural Areas
- Virtual Reality Can Help Disabled Persons
- The Information Highway May Not Benefit Society
- The Information Highway Will Not Connect Most of the World’s People
- Corporate Control of the Information Highway Threatens the Public Interest
- The Information Highway May Harm the Environment
- The Information Highway May Not Benefit Minorities
- Computers Occupy Too Much of Children’s Time
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No: The Information Highway May Not Benefit Society
- Regulating Computer Content: An Overview
- Objectionable Computer Content Should Be Regulated
- Computer Pornography Should Be Prohibited
- Sexually Repulsive Internet Postings Should Be Prohibited
- America Needs a Secure Computer Encryption System
- Objectionable Computer Content Should Be Labeled, Not Censored
- Government Should Not Censor the Internet
- Prosecutors Should Not Excessively Target Pornography
- A Government Computer Encryption System Would Threaten Civil Liberties
- Computer Technology Can Filter Out Objectionable Material
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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