Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politicians who couldn't even find Silicon Valley on a map two years ago all praise the importance of universal 'Net access and computers in education. The current robustness of the economy is often laid at the feet of increased productivity due to the intelligent application of computers...
...window is still small--only 300,000 Chinese have access to the Internet, vs. some 25 million in the U.S.--but it is opening quickly. Officials at China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China...
...build the electronic equivalent of the Great Wall around its country. As enthusiastic as they may be about the efficiencies of the Net, government officials admit they are still curious about the notion that the Net could somehow be "boxed." In that imagined future, Chinese citizens would have easy access to domestic websites, but sites outside the mainland--cnn.com for instance--might be blocked. China would become one big, self-contained Internet--what techies like to call an intranet--sealed off from the rest of the world. Access to foreign sites would remain under government control. Says a Hong Kong...
Rifkin recalled that after an injury to aDartmouth player the team was denied access tovarsity teams' ice. She said she was insulted at"not having medical access because we're not`real' athletes...
...things like giving us basic access toice--it's frozen water!" Rifkin said...