Word: superhighway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...change the system, we should not be deterred by false choices. The choice is not between free speech and the marketplace on the one hand, and governmental censorship and bureaucracy on the other. The choice is to serve the needs of children and use the opportunities presented by the superhighway in the digital age to enrich their lives. If we turn away from that choice, the consequences of our inaction will be even greater educational neglect, more craven and deceptive consumerism and inappropriate levels of sex and violence-a wasteland vaster than anyone can imagine, or would care...
...Clinton Administration today proposedcreating a new federal agency to police the "information superhighway."The Wall Street Journal reports that the new federal entity would respond to hacker intrusions that have undermined faith in thesecurity of electronic information and transactions, particularly as financial, transportation and other systems become almost exclusively electronic. The proposal, from a governmentwide task force called the National Information Infrastructure Forum, would train officials to respond to security "emergencies" andpush for encryption standardsthat government and industry could share...
This piece will not begin with a bad joke about the information superhighway...
Fortunately, the awful overuse of "Information superhighway" references seem to have been at a minimum at Harvard during the past few years...
...preserve the school budget as much as possible, including overriding Proposition 2.5(the proposition allows the town to have a vote and take on additional municipal taxes to preserve the school budget)...[And on the town committee] there was a proposal to have each classroom linked into the information superhighway within five years that won. I was psyched because I was pushing that pretty hard...