Re: New Term for Info Superhighway, NII.. Infobahn

[Scott Anthony Rick <scottr@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU>]

It's neat, but it's too close to INFOBAN, which is what will take place
if commercial interests have their way with the net.  Like TV, the
Information SSuperhighway will become the Infomercial Supersewer.  It
will all be billboards, junkmail, and home shopping, and information will
play a secondary, irrelevant role, as the bottom line reigns supreme.
But we won't let that happen--will we?


On Mon, 11 Jan 1904, Bob Koechley wrote:

> Was told at a recent lecture by Barry Orton, a UW professor of Cable
> Indusrty and network structure, that the new term in vogue at his altitude
> of expertise, to refer to the Information Superhighway or the National
> Information Inferstructure is the INFOBAHN.  It's shorter andbrings in a
> euro tone. Whadayathink?
>


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