That maybe people don't want to buy this stuff. That it is going to take a long time to build. That no one knows what the consumer might be willing to buy. That perhaps the hype is out-stripping the reality. It's all a bunch of hooey.
Nobody seems to know what the information highway is.
Talk to the cable companies, and it runs down cable wires. Talk to the telephone companies, and it will run down telephone wires. Talk to publishers, and it will include their content. Yet, aside from the fact that we are promised that it is an instant solution to late 20th century economic malaise, no one knows exactly what it is. Talk to skeptics, and words like 'high-tech couch potato' enter the conversation.