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ISBN: 9780776604930-02

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The Trans-Canada Highway vs The Information Highway: The Road Less Traveled?

From: Cyberidentities

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There has been much written to support the metaphor of the highway being used to describe this massive undertaking to “wire” the world. Headlines such as: “Information’s brave new road,” “Information highway or hypeway?” “300 rules of the road posted for high-tech highway,” or, ‘The Information Highway – From Public Thoroughfare to Private Road,” to name but a few, all serve to solidify in our minds the link between transportation and telecommunications.

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Irwin Shubert

Irwin Shubert is Lecturer at the Centre for Canadian Studies, Simon Eraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.