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Exploring the Information Superhighway s Fiber Optic Communication

A Newsweek piece noted that plans for large-scale fiber-optic deployment in the United States were more expensive and slower than early proponents had projected, reducing the relevance of the "information superhighway" rhetoric in later discussions.OverviewThe information superhighway (from German: infobahn) is a late-20th-century descriptive phrase that aspirationally referred to the increasingly mainstream availability of (and ultima. There are a number of definitions of this term. The 1996 publication Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age defines the term as "the whole digital - interactive, cable, broadband, 500-chann. Some other people used the term "superhighway" in application to telecommunications even earlier. In 1964, M. Brotherton in his book " and ; How They Work, What They Do" on p. 5.