Information Superhighway

Information Superhighway, term used primarily in public policy and politics, it refers to the availability and use of advanced information services through a variety of high-capacity transport facilities. The word superhighway was intended to convey images of a core national infrastructure providing abundant information at high speeds to the general public. It was made popular by United States Vice-President Albert Gore to highlight the importance of such an infrastructure. The concept of information superhighway remains abstract, and has been superseded somewhat by the terms National or Global Information Infrastructure which are less focused on the notion of a single, publicly owned means of information transport. In practice, the Internet has been the chief contemporary example for all these terms. However, many different segments of the telecommunications industry point to services, such as interactive television, promoting an information superhighway.