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Harvard students, faculty, administrators and staff are entering the information superhighway. They are using e-mail and the Internet--a global data communication network--for more and increasingly complicated tasks, fundamentally changing learning and communication at Harvard...
...grow up to be just like him. Microsoft (fiscal 1993 revenues: $3.75 billion), the company he heads, already owns the operating systems that run most of the world's personal computers. But good computers are not enough in the age of the information superhighway. As a result, many of Gates' new rivals on this front are monitoring reports of his latest ventures, wondering if Microsoft will invade their territory. Last week, in a stunning series of moves, the tousled, 38-year-old Harvard dropout treated them to a waking nightmare of activity...
...government remains deaf. The information Superhighway must go no, bulldozing anything in its path. The NSA believes that national security is the highest priority for any country, and even privacy must be sacrificed for its cause...
...stake in the Clipper war is actually quite simple: information. In the Atomic Age, everyone wondered who had the atom bomb. In the Information Age, everyone wonders who has the information. Clipper merely represents a battle over who has the information and who can get the information. The Information Superhighway is meant to ease our transition into a great new era by giving us 500 cable channels and amazing new toys like the Powerbook. Society will supposedly be able to do amazing new things and evolve into a higher plane of being...
...finally the Clipper chip has garnered the attention of the full public with coverage in such mainstream media as the New York Times or Time magazine. No longer is the information superhighway an object to be buried in the science section, or relegated to articles in trade magazines like Macweek or PC World...