Sunergy 12: Information Highway Access: With Liberty and Jus
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 2008-01-17

Sunergy 12, Posted with Permission from Sun Microsystems, John Gage, Chief Science Officer.

Information Highway Access: With Liberty and Justice for All?

January 24, 1995: ME1066-0/NTSC

As the Internet grows to ... all » become the Global Information Infrastructure, will access for diverse constituencies be assured or will we create competing classes of information "haves" and "have nots"? Is ubiquitous access a policy matter or can it be designed into the technology?

The biggest problem in designing access is that nobody knows what the essence of the infobahn will be. Even if we did know, which infobahn services would we consider essential? Operating on the assumption that the GII will be central to the way we work, learn and communicate, it is clear that we need to talk about how technologies, market forces, and policies can intersect to create widely accessible information highway onramps.

Guests: John Gage (Host), Sun Microsystems Computer Company; Wendell Bailey, National Cable Television Association; Robert Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives; Deborah Kaplan, World Institute on Disability Carl Malamud, Internet Multicasting Service; Mike Nelson, The White House; Marshall T. Rose, First Virtual Holdings, Inc.; Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems Inc.