Word: superhighway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think of Harvard's campus network as a "highway." This "highway" is connected ("internetted") with other such highways throughout the world. Thus exists the Internet, the "superhighway" of highways...
...know by now that Harvard is "on the information superhighway." But what does this really mean? In fact, the concept is more than just a political catch-phrase...
Where do baby bells go before setting out on the information superhighway? If they're Nynex, Bell Atlantic Corp. and Pacific Telesis, they fuel up in Hollywood. The three phone giants announced today that they were starting a production venture with premier agent Michael Ovitz's company, Creative Artists Agency. The goal: produce TV shows and interactive entertainment, which they can pump over their lines. It's all part of therace against cableto capitalize on the emerging information-in-a-settop-box age. Phone companies are trying to makeup for cable's huge programming advantage. "That's why they need...
MacNeil, who turns 64 next year, hopes to finish work on his second novel, The Voyage (his first was 1992's steamy Burden of Desire), and plan a possible PBS series on the information superhighway. In the past 10 years he has diversified his public personas, including playing host on the PBS documentary series The Story of English and assuming the leadership of the MacDowell Colony, an artist's sanctuary in Peterborough, New Hampshire...
Besides the prospect of a job for Barry Diller, one of the great benefits of the information superhighway is supposed to be interactive television. Now programmers at Cornell University have taken a step toward making two-way TV a reality. Thanks to software dubbed "CU-SeeMe," Internet users can tap into live sound-and-image transmissions with their computers. Better yet, users with video cameras can actually exchange TV images with fellow networkers...