Introduction Linking schools to the emerging telecommunications network has become one of the hottest education topics of the 1990s. Politicians proclaim their commitmentto it.
Businesses tout their contributions toward achieving it.
And schools are spending substantial sums to accomplish it. There's a clear logic to these goals. Advanced communications technologies are increasingly shaping how we work, play, and relate to one another. Some 37 percent of U.S. households have computers, and although the number connected to networks remains relatively small, it is growing exponentially. Indeed, the importance of computer networks is likely to grow enormously in the years ahead, as they become the means for delivering not just text and data, but video, audio and graphical information as well.