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information superhighway
[ in-fer-mey-shuhn soo-per-hahy-wey ]
- a large-scale communications network providing a variety of often interactive services, as text databases, email, and audio and video materials, accessed through computers, television sets, etc.
information superhighway
noun
- the concept of a worldwide network of computers capable of transferring all types of digital information at high speed
- another name for the internet
information superhighway
- A term that describes all of the infrastructure, including cable, satellites, and assorted hardware , that allows information to be transferred at great speed over large distances to all people.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of information superhighway1
Example Sentences
This was the so-called “information superhighway,” which Levin called the Full Service Network.
Computers across the country needed to be able to communicate, transmitting data on a high-speed network that Al Gore liked to call the “information superhighway.”
When the tantalizing concept of an “information superhighway” first appeared in 1993, it was held out as rivaling the railroads and airlines in revolutionizing and connecting the world.
For those reasons, the vagus nerve — the longest of the 12 cranial nerves — is sometimes referred to as an “information superhighway.”
You point to moments in the history of internet privatization where there were intervention points, like proposals for a “public lane in the information superhighway.”
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