National Information Infrastructure
<project> (NII, or "information superhighway") Future integrated
communications in the USA. The NII will be based on a nationwide network of
networks, and will supposedly allow all Americans to take advantage of the
country's information, communication, and computing resources.
The NII will include current and future public and private high-speed,
interactive, narrow-band and broadband networks. It is the satellite,
terrestrial, and wireless communications systems that deliver content to homes,
businesses, and other public and private institutions. It is the information and
content that flows over the infrastructure whether in the form of databases, the
written word, a film, a piece of music, a sound recording, a picture, or
computer software. It is the computers, televisions, telephones, radios, and
other products that people will employ to access the infrastructure. It is the
people who will provide, manage, and generate new information, and those that
will help others do the same. And it is the individual Americans who will use
and benefit from the NII. The NII is a term that encompasses all these
components and captures the vision of a nationwide, invisible, seamless, dynamic
web of transmission mechanisms, information appliances, content, and people.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/nii/NII-Table-of-Contents.html.
(1995-04-08)
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