Revolution in the U.S. Information Infrastructure

National Academy of Engineering

doi:10.17226/4944

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Revolution in the U.S. Information Infrastructure

(1995)

While societies have always had information infrastructures, the power and reach of today's information technologies offer opportunities to transform work and family lives in an unprecedented fashion. This volume, a collection of six papers presented at the 1994 National Academy of Engineering Meeting Technical Session, presents a range of views on the subject of the revolution in the U.S. information infrastructure. The papers cover a variety of current issues including an overview of the technological developments driving the evolution of information infrastructures and where they will lead; the development of the Internet, particularly the government's role in its evolution; the impact of regulatory reform and antitrust enforcement on the telecommunications revolution; and perspectives from the computer, wireless, and satellite communications industries.

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National Academy of Engineering. 1995. Revolution in the U.S. Information Infrastructure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/4944.

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88 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-05287-0
Ebook: 978-0-309-17632-3

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/4944

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-viii
The Evolution of Information Infrastructures: The Competitive Search for Solutions	1-12
The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet	13-24
The Promise of the National Information Infrastructure	25-38
Satellite Communications in the Global Information Infrastructure	39-52
Current Trends and Likely Futures in Wireless Systems	53-62
Antitrust Enforcement and the Telecommunications Revolution: Friends, Not Enemies	63-79

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