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...interactive-TV pilot projects play a critical role in the race to build the communications networks of the future. It is here that the rhetoric about the info highway comes face-to-face with the realities of engineering. And what the trials have been showing, say industry observers, is that the top executives who commissioned them have run ahead of their engineers. "It's a constant theme," says Steve Krause, a technology expert at SRI International. "When these projects finally get down to the implementation level, reality hits...
...specific dollar values. Newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer are testing $10 cards that would deduct 50 cents each time they are inserted in news racks. No more fumbling for loose change. Telephone companies are issuing cards good for so many minutes of calling time. And a brand-new electronic highway toll system developed by AT&T and Lockheed in Orange County, California, lets drivers pay without stopping. Radio receivers pick up signals from dashboard-mounted cards as vehicles zip through toll lanes. The fees are deducted directly from the drivers' bank accounts. Says Bob Bess, a customer-service representative...
...magazine's first cover-story is titled,"Information Highway: Myth or Reality." Corbettexplains that the first cover-piece is "not atechnical news article but an in-depth feature toinform the general public...
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...politics were a highway, the two would probably sideswipe each other in the middle of the road. They have the same moderate, centrist views onissues ranging from crime to welfare reform...