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The information revolution of the 1990s began in the United States, and while it is gradually spreading to other countries this diffusion is uneven. Many criteria make this statement valid: from cabled cities and towns to the national initiative taken with the goal of bringing the country into the 21st century.

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© 1997 Dimitris N. Chorafas

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Chorafas, D.N. (1997). What’s the Sense of the Information Superhighway?. In: Protocols, Servers and Projects for Multimedia Realtime Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14096-1_1

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