On the RoadAgain? If Information Highways are Anything like Interstate Highways--Watch Out! Richard &love and Je~ey Scheuer The Loka Institute, Amherst, MA Ce-President AI Gore envisions the information super ighway as the second coming of the interstate highway ystem championed by his father, former United States Senator A1 Gore, a generation ago. 1 Let us pray the good VicePresident is proven wrong. Rush-hour traffic jams, gridlock, garish plastic and neon signs, high fatality rates, air pollution, global warming, depletion of the world's oil reserves--have we forgotten all of the interstate highway system's most familiar consequences? It's not that Gore's analogy is wrong, only that his enthusiasm is misplaced. Comparing the electronic and asphalt highways is useful--but mostly as a cautionary tale. Building the new information infrastructure will not entail the degree of immediate, physical disruption caused by the interstate highway system. But sweeping geographic relocations, and accompanying social transformation, seem probably. And the risk of inequity in contriving and distribution electronic services--or, conversel> imposing them where thy are not wanted--is clear. Indeed, disparities in access to new information systems have already begun to surface. A study released in 1994 by a coalition of public interest organizations including the
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Sclove, Richard; Scheuer, Jeffrey
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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