blah blah blah wired schools blah blah blah CyBurbs blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 500 channels blah blah blah blah www blah blah blah blah blah blah
InfoTainment blah blah blah blah Secure Transactions blah blah Video Pizza Server
blah blah VRML blah blah blah blah Set-Top Gizmos blah blah Active-X blah blah
Clipper Chip blah blah .com blah TeleCable MegaMergers blah blah blah blah blah
Porn! blah blah blah blah privacy blah blah IRC blah on-ramps blah blah anytime anyplace blah blah blah blah blah off-ramps
blah blah blah Microsoft blah blah Push blah blah blah
blah PGP blah blah blah blah Java This blah blah
blah blah blah blah WebTV blah blah Virtual Anything blah blah blah blah blah blah....
blah spam blah blah blah blah blah blah plug-ins blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah XML blah blah blah blah blah Internet IPOS blah blah blah meet me in the chat blah blah
blah blah schlockwave blah blah blah .............and on it goes.
Talk about the Information SuperHypeWay.
Reality Check, please?
...... Yes, how about some information reality. A physical metaphor. In the late 1980s the citizens of Maricopa County, Arizona, approved a tax to build a badly-needed highway system of over 270 miles. Well, here by 1994 only 70 miles have been completed! Those of us living on the east side of Scottsdale have had the pleasure these last 5 years of staring off at some strange monuments of highways to come, the "road-less overpass". Oh, the remainder of the freeway may be complete by 1999!
Whenever someone asks me about the Information SuperHypeWay, I point to the Pima Freeway. It is a great concept, part of it is already there and works well, you will pay for it, you will pay more than promised, it will take longer than promised to complete, and now it is not even close to being connected to your driveway!
drive on