信息高速公路的概念已涉及技术、经济、政策以及电讯的多重混合.这种概念不仅出现在美国的“国家信息基础设施”计划中,而且出现在西欧的“欧洲信息社会”和新加坡的“智力岛”计划中.声音、影像和数据,特别是电话、电视和计算机带来的数字化,正在将技术失误排除出历史的规范和市场分配之外. The concept of an information highway has involved the multiple mixes of technology, economy, policy and telecommunications, not only in the United States’ “national information infrastructure” program, but also in the “European Information Society” in Western Europe and the “intellectual Island ”program, the digitization of voice, video and data, especially telephony, television and computers, is excluding technical errors from historical norms and market allocations.