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...fight was a quintessential '90s struggle that reflected the merger mania sweeping the communications industry and the quest for films, TV shows and other programming to run on the much anticipated electronic superhighway. Companies now feel compelled to bulk up to colossal size to compete with giants like Time Warner or huge telephone-cable-TV combines like the proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications...
When the information superhighway comes to town, TIME plans to be there as well. Time Warner, our parent company, is scheduled to begin testing a Full Service Network in Florida later this year, delivering interactive video over fiber-optic and cable-TV lines to 4,000 homes in Orlando. As part of that system, TIME journalists will collaborate with partners in various TV news divisions on a service called News on Demand that will let viewers see the stories they want, when they want to see them. Subscribers interested in Tonya Harding, for example, might order up both...
...surveying the catastrophe, the experts have begun to imagine a postquake L.A. that would have room for skyscrapers and swimming pools, that would have people off freeways, on mass transit and telecommuting on the information superhighway. Some believed that L.A. residents may finally be primed to accept changes that should have come long ago. Elwood Smietana, Southern California manager of EQE, a San Francisco earthquake-design firm, put it bluntly: "It really takes a disaster to get people off their butts...
...WORKPLACE. A surprising consequence of the traffic jams brought on by eight collapsed segments of the freeway system was a headlong rush toward the information superhighway. Mayor Richard Riordan announced a grandiose plan to relieve traffic congestion by extensive "telecommuting" -- working from home with computers and faxes. He also spoke of creating "satellite office centers" outside the downtown districts. The Southern California Telecommuting Partnership was organized in the earthquake's aftermath. Its members, a coalition of businessmen and government officials, hope to make telecommuting a viable option for the city, bringing permanent change to the way its work force...
...information superhighway will continue to blaze trails through Harvard during the next few weeks, when four more houses receive network connections in students' rooms...