Elon University

Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use

There’s a revolution in global telephony coming that will have such brutal, industry-crushing speed and power that it will make even the computer industry blanch. Analog is dying everywhere. Everyone with wire and antenna is going into the business of moving bits.

Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use

We have an opportunity to create media that would match the splendid ambitions of Franklin with his public libraries and his mail system, and Jefferson and Madison with their determination to arm democracy with the power knowledge gives. We could offer children, yes even poor children in poor districts, a real opportunity to control the screen, for once.

Literary Freeware: Not for Commercial Use

What you propose here, ladies and gentlemen, may well represent nothing less than this nation’s last and best hope of providing something like a level socio-economic playing field for a true majority of its citizens.

Cyberspace 2020

Like bank ATMs, people will start to use cyberspace-based government services if they make interaction with government easier and faster.

Building the Information Marketplace

Common directory services would make it easier to cope with the richness of services available, and entrepreneurs would, for a fee, advise users about the servers most suitable for their needs.

Crime and Crypto on the Information Superhighway

If it is rejected, the implications for criminal justice could be profound. As the information superhighway continues to expand into every area of society and commerce, court-ordered wiretaps and seizures of records could become tools of the past, and the information superhighway a safe haven for criminal and terrorist activity.

We Are the Wired: Some Views On the Fiberoptic Ties That Bind

Our saturation with information we don’t need, with noise that increasingly rattles us, will begin to pall … We will come ever more to resent the time it steals from our lives. Very few people any more want a real superhighway through their neighborhood, and perhaps it will someday be the same with megatube.