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Foil 5 What will National Information Infrastructure(NII) give us?

From Implications of NII for Kids Jamesville-Dewitt School Districy Science Week -- April 25,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
NII is digital superhighway provided to you by
  • ÒOptical FiberÓ : NYNEX and Newchannels (Phone and Cable Industry)
  • ÒServicesÓ: CNN, America OnLine, Prodigy, Syracuse NewsPapers, Blockbuster and indeed YOU!!
  • Current NII is INTERNET and World Wide Web
ÒEveryÓ Business Office, Every doctorÕs Office, ÒEveryÓ school desk, ÒEveryÓ home(potential patient) (approximately any home on cable) will have a two-way high speed link to the NII
  • about 10 Megabits/second compared to
  • about 10 Kilobits/second for a modem (14.4 kbit/sec)
What does this factor of 1000 increase in performance do for the home?
  • TV + Settop Unit(analog) becomes Computer(Interactive digital)
  • Modem & home PC supporting text interfaces becomes interactive full (VHS Þ HDTV resolution) video receiving unit
  • Interactive implies that you can choose what you want when you want it.

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