An Integrated Educational Program In Information Networking Technologies … A Match For The Next Millennium

There is a vision being explored and brought to fruition by an unprecedented partnership of government, industry, and a wide range of institutions. It is a vision of a widely available and affordable access to lifelong educational opportunities, of improved and more cost effective health care, of essentially universal access to the best libraries and other sources of information, and of increasing productivity and competitiveness. The vision is of a national information infrastructure based on the powerful communications and computational capabilities that have emerged over the last several years. Models for information infrastructure already exist, although none have achieved the scale of the new one envisioned. The Internet, the universal telephone network and the vast bed of compatible videocassette recorders installed in America homes and businesses are examples of models for information infrastructure.