In ten minutes he'll have you convinced that if the Net isn't reaching every earthly corner from the peaks of Nepal to Mississippi River bayous, it's only a matter of time. Bopp, a Net proponent who regularly gives Internet presentations to University personnel, admits that he sometimes finds himself calling up local weather information on the WWW rather than simply walking outside to check. Cable modems are new right now and it's not clear whether they'll take off. However, they have the potential to carry an enormous amount of data. Cable modem software would allow digital signals to pass in or out of the home via coaxial cable, which is already installed in any household subscribing to a cable TV system.
Coaxial cable can carry hundreds of times more information than telephone wiring.
To make this system work, cable companies would have to change the way they distribute information. They have to become Internet providers, and that will be a jump for them. I could see the Web in a broadcast mode, maybe eventually replacing broadcast television. Choice being the operative word for today's audience, the marriage between television and the Web might be one made, if not in heaven, at least in virtual paradise. Tell them you saw it in the Toledo Alumni magazine. . .