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Gibson called that place "cyberspace." In the years since, there have been other names given to that shadowy space where our computer data reside: the Net, the Web, the Cloud, the information superhighway. But Gibson's coinage may prove the most enduring. By 1989 it had been borrowed to describe not some science-fiction fantasy but today's increasingly interconnected computer systems--especially the millions of computers jacked into the Internet...
...took 10 years to figure out how to use the damned things!) Thus technology added mightily to this decade's prosperity, which reinforced the prestige of capitalism. Capitalism, meanwhile, repaid the favor. A few years ago there was talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival as a society-transforming force is largely the result of capitalism in almost textbook-pure form: not IBM or even Microsoft, but vast crowds of garage-shop inventors...
...Wing Conspiracy Scandal makes for strange bedfellows, and also puts allies at odds. Witness Hillary Clinton, who has launched an attack on the global information superhighway, the erstwhile centerpiece of the President's 21st century. Full Story...
...lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne, that the Vice President demanded his practice room be cooled to the precise temperature of the debate hall--and made sure...
From 1996 to 1997 the number of adult Internet users in the U.S. doubled to between 40 and 50 million. Although the network to end all networks has been hailed as a bastion of instantaneous information, traffic on the superhighway has been slowing down recently...