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信息高速公路是当今美国乃至国际高技术领域讨论最为热烈的一个话题。一般认为,美国是一个高度信息化的社会。但美国人并不这样看,他们认为美国尚处于后工业化社会,距离真正的信息化社会还有相当漫长的一段距离。因此克林顿政府提出建立全美国信息高速公路的构想,以此作为使美国迈向21世纪的战略目标。所以从社会意义上说,信息高速公路将是对美国社会基础设施的一个重构。而从技术的角度来说,又有许多人认为它是现代的科学幻想。那么信息高速公路究竟是什么呢?有兴趣的读者不妨继续读下去。
The information superhighway is one of the hottest topics in the high-tech area in the United States and internationally. It is generally believed that the United States is a highly informatized society. But Americans do not think so. They think the United States is still in a post-industrialized society and has a long way to go in the real information society. Therefore, the Clinton administration proposed the idea of establishing an information highway throughout the United States as a strategic goal of bringing the United States into the 21st century. So in a social sense, the information superhighway will be a reconstruction of American social infrastructure. From a technical point of view, many people think it is a modern science fantasy. So what is the information highway? Interested readers may wish to continue reading.