The Unpredictable Certainty: Information Infrastructure Through 2000
by By National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, NII 2000 Steering Committee
Category: Computers , General

Explores the national information infrastructure (NII) as a potential collection of all public and private information services. Some topics include when the NII might materialize, who will finance it, what the underlying technologies are, and the challenges of open interfaces that stimulate new applications but also facilitate competition.  Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.