The Teledesic satellite system proposed by Bill Gates and Craig McCaw gained an operating license from the FCC for a planned 2002 start-up. They suggest that scientists should look instead to Vincent Wigglesworth, an insect physiologist whose career spanned the years from 1923 to 1991. He wrote a seminal book and spent his life focused on finding illuminating solutions to problems, rather than conducting research in narrow-fashionable areas. Author David Shenk says this may not improve education. He says that education is not the same as accessing information.
Education is actually the limiting of information.
You have a teacher who lets in a little information each day in each class that fits in with what you already know and puts it in context. It had a powerful impact on international diplomacy. On February 15 representatives of 69 nations meeting in Geneva signed an agreement calling for an international open market in telecommunications. Even if the agreement is formally adopted by all signatory states by the November 1997 deadline, it will be years before national laws and regulations are adjusted to the unfettered competition envisioned by the World Trade Organization. Some predict that by the year 2000 the average cost of international calls will decline by 80 percent or more.