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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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""The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction and Overview""; ""PART 1�SETTING THE STAGE""; ""PART 2�REGULATION AND THE EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""PART 3�PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES""; ""Accommodating Rapid Technological Changes""; ""Standards and Standards Setting""; ""Democratization""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""NOTES""; ""Part 1 Setting the Stage""; ""Introduction to Part 1""; ""The Evolution of the Telecommunications Infrastructure"" |
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""HOW THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK BECAME DIGITAL""""THE ADVENT OF DIGITAL SWITCHING""; ""THE BOTTLENECK: LOCAL LOOP ACCESS""; ""THE PACKETIZING OF COMMUNICATIONS: ATM""; ""THE NEW INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""THE USER VIEW OF INTERNET ECONOMICS""; ""THE CONTRAST IN PHILOSOPHY BETWEEN THE INTERNET AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS""; ""MULTIMEDIA AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET""; ""The Search for the Holy Paradigm: Regulating the Information Infrastructure in the 21st Century""; ""DEFINITION OF THE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""REGULATION OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""Goals of Regulation""; ""Liberty"" |
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""Equity""""Community""; ""Efficiency""; ""Participatory Access""; ""REGULATORY PARADIGMS""; ""Stage 1: Scarcity""; ""Production""; ""Distribution Media""; ""Reception""; ""Summary of Stage 1""; ""Stage 2: Abundance and Competition""; ""Production""; ""Distribution Media""; ""Reception""; ""Summary of Stage 2""; ""THE NEW COMPLEXITY""; ""Technological Trends""; ""Economic Trends""; ""Sociological and Organizational Trends""; ""Political Trends""; ""Scientific Trends""; ""TOWARD A NEW REGULATORY PARADIGM FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION""; ""MAJOR ISSUES AHEAD""; ""Production"" |
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""Intellectual Property""""Content Controls""; ""Public Space and Information""; ""Distribution""; ""Infrastructure""; ""Universal Service""; ""Community""; ""Reception""; ""User Control""; ""Privacy""; ""Information Literacy""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""NOTES""; ""Current and Future Uses of Information Networks""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION NETWORKS""; ""A GOOD ECONOMIC BET""; ""LIKELY DEVELOPMENTS""; ""Customer Interfaces""; ""Bank Structure""; ""The Network as a Market""; ""The Network Structure"" |
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""The Changing Nature of Telecommunications and the Information Infrastructure for Health Care""""INTRODUCTION""; ""STIMULI TO CHANGE""; ""RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR IMPROVED CLINICAL DATA SYSTEMS""; ""ATTRACTING PHYSICIANS TO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS""; ""EXAMPLE USES OF THE NII FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Can K-12 Education Drive on the Information Superhighway?""; ""NO MYSTERY AS TO THE EFFECTIVE APPLICATIONS OF NEW COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES""; ""SNAGS, BARRIERS, AND ROADBLOCKS ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY"" |
| Notes |
""The Telecommunications Industry and K-12 Education"" |
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Print version record |
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Information superhighway -- United States
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Telecommunication -- United States
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Information superhighway
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Telecommunication
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309586986 |
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0309586984 |
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