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your granddaughter's first words, or a "photo" of your friend's new
house. Eventually, this standard could allow for distribution of even
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All of this will require vast new amounts of Net power, to handle
both the millions of new people who will jump onto the Net and the new kent logo design
applications they want.
Replicating a moving image on a computer screen
alone takes a phenomenal amount of computer bits, and computing power to
arrange them.
All of this combines into a National Information Infrastructure able
to move billions of bits of information in one second -- the kind of
power needed to hook information "hoses" into every business and house.
As these "superhighways" grow, so will the "on ramps," for a high-
speed road does you little good if you can't get to it. The costs of
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(9600 baud and up) are becoming increasingly affordable. At 9600 baud,
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national digital network. Most long-distance phone traffic is already
carried in digital form, through high-volume optical fibers. Phone
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mile" to the home. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is working to
ensure these links are affordable.
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Beyond the technical questions are increasingly thorny social,
political and economic issues.
Who is to have access to these
services, and at what cost? If utah logo design we kent logo design live in an information age, are we
laying the seeds for a new information under class, unable to compete
with those fortunate enough to have the money and skills needed to
manipulate new communications channels? Who, in fact, decides who has
access to what? As more companies realize the potential profits to be
made in the new information infrastructure, what happens to such
systems as Usenet, possibly the world's first successful anarchistic
system, where everybody can say whatever they want?
What are the laws of the electronic frontier? When national and
state boundaries lose their meaning in cyberspace, the question might
even be: WHO is the law? What if a practice that is legal in one
country is "committed" in another country where it is illegal, over a
computer network that crosses through a third country? Who goes after
computer crackers?
What role will you play in the revolution? ... |
