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Take the Internet, for example. We've got to figure out a way to package this sea of information in a way the general public will appreciate. (Ignore for now the view that the Internet will not in and of itself become the backbone of the "info highway," since this problem of packaging information is a general one for which the Internet is but one example...
Catch-Up on the Info Highway...
...members pointed out that there's plenty of info about Harvard on the 'Net," Kim said. "It turned out to be a Harvard-only hunt, which I thought was great...
...civil libertarians fear the proposed law could turn every online-service provider into an info cop. "Exon's bill would be the end of the Internet as we know it," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a New York City-based media-research firm. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argues that constitutional guarantees apply in the new media just as they apply in the old-no matter how offensive the material. "The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because no one ever tries to ban the other kind," he says...
Setting the stage for telecommunications talks at next week's G-7 meeting in Brussels, Vice President Al Gore unveiled the U.S. proposal for a global info superhighway. The long-awaited U.S. plan forsees a privately-funded, market-driven "Global Information Infrastructure" with uniform security and access policies. Gore will push for telecommunications reforms to permit competition among telephone and cable television companies and open the network to all firms and individuals, regardless of income. TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt says it is ironic that Gore wants other nations to deregulate "before we've gotten our house in order...