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...with 32 PCs per 100 citizens, Europe and Asia are coming up fast. Among the reasons are the privatization of industry, which is breaking the stranglehold of government telecommunications monopolies, and the recognition by political leaders of the vital importance of getting up to speed on the worldwide Infobahn (as the Europeans prefer to call...
...homes in Montreal and Quebec City. Outside the relatively well-wired confines of North America, however, getting connected can still be a frustrating and costly experience. In Europe and parts of Asia, monopolistic state telephone systems erect a bewildering array of speed limits and tollgates that make traveling the Infobahn a costly and often frustrating experience. High long-distance fees and connection surcharges levied by monopolistic government communications ministries can make the use of the Internet and such services as CompuServe and America Online unduly expensive for ordinary users. Some countries outlaw communications equipment without an official government imprimatur, which...
...interactive media will also allow for a more informed populace. Granted, technology as it is today requires the user to be somewhat well-informed anyway, but as interfaces grow and society habituates to new media, the method--and the impulse--of Joe User to extract information from the Infobahn will become intuitive...
Beyond online publishing we've not even grazed the surface of broadband media in the discussion. Not to mention that our example is currently impossible, as the New York Times is entangled in a legal spaghetti that hinders them from setting up shop on the Infobahn then a limited manner...
...computer no longer has a sound card, but at least I'm back on the Infobahn...