Eventually the industry will evolve a new kind of vehicle for the information highway, one that will be worth the wait. Well, maybe it will, but it will be a long time coming, considering the lack of investment so far, and those backing the information highway cannot afford to wait. With the massive investment being made in infrastructure by the federal government and with the mergers and buyouts going on in industry, with a variety of companies poised to make their moves in highway building, it is amazing how little effort is being devoted to creating the content that will move on the highway. No one seems to be thinking in an interesting way about what the cars on the information highway should look like, what they should be able to do, and who could possibly build them. It is in this very imagining that the problem lies.
Someone has misunderstood something profoundly.
The misunderstanding lies in the assumption that what people will want to do on the information highway is precisely what they have been doing all along without it. There are some tremendous needs in our society that the information highway could satisfy, but these aren't being talked about at all. Take me to the outline for the book .