How will the information superhighway develop between now and the end of the
century? Some of the United State’s foremost experts from academia and business
were brought to answer this question under the aegis of the National Research
Council in The Unpredictable Certainty (National Academy Press, £20.95,
ISBN 0 309 05432 X). The answer, they agree, is that we are getting
there—if they only they could work out where “there” is.
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