If the technology is successful in a mass market implementation and economical to produce, Ted Turner and Ted Rogers can take their cable cookies and go home. Read about it in Wired. That means your company or government department's Local Area Network will be part of a global Wide Area Network. Read about it in Byte. So you if you are sending paper-based communications to the unwired population, you can send it direct to Vancouver on the network and print it there, instead of printing here and shipping there.
Information is on the move.
It's going global. It's becoming interactive. And the Internet offers you the opportunity to master digital media at a very low cost.