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Larry Press (1993).
The Internet and interactive television.
Communications of the ACM, vol.36, no.12, pp.19--23.
Abstract
The idea of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) is in the air. The Clinton administration feels the NII can "transform the lives of the American people" and NII has made the covers of Time and Newsweek. The NII is old hat to members ofthe computer science community. We have had the Internet, a global information infrastructure, for many years. But Time is not focusing on the Internet. Time is interested in home shopping and movies on demand, not email and ftp. Two amorphous groups, let's call them the Internet community and the interactive TV community, are working on information infrastructure. While there is similarity in what they envision, there are also significant differences in their worldviews. Later in this column I will compare these two communities.
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