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This important volume reviews the history of the telecommunication
superhighway pointing out its beginnings in the interactive TV and
broadband highway of the wired cities more than two decades ago. It
explains the technological uncertainties of the superhighway and
many of its futuristic services, and also gives an understandable
review of the technological principles behind today's modern
telecommunication networks and systems.
Recognizing that technology is only one factor in shaping the
future, the author, a well-recognized telecommunications expert,
analyzes the financial, policy, business, and consumer issues that
undermine the superhighway. The book concludes by showing that
today's switched telephone network and CATV systems already form a
telecommunication superhighway carrying voice, data, image, and
video communication for a wide variety of services that enable us
to stay in contact with anyone anywhere on our planet.
"Highway of Dreams" is written clearly with understandable
explanations for nonspecialists. It challenges the technological
utopia offered by the promoters of the superhighway and suggests
that consumer needs, finance, corporate culture, and policy often
have far greater impact on the future than technology alone.
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