Information Superhighway

nickname for the global computer networks which make up the Internet

The information superhighway is a now-obsolete term that was used to describe the future of what existed up until the mid-1990s as the Internet (for the early state of the Internet, see Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog).Nam June Paik, a 20th century South Korean born American video artist, claims to have coined the term in 1974. “I used the term (information superhighway) in a study I wrote for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1974. I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That's dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen.” [1] The term was popularized by former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore in the early 1990s. [2], [3]
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Noun
1. an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form
(synonym) superhighway
(hypernym) network, electronic network

Synonym National Information Infrastructure.

<communications> (Or "Infobahn", "Info Strada") The name coined by US Vice-president Al Gore in the early 1990s for the emerging high-speed global communications network capable of carrying voice, data, video, and other services around the world. These services use satellite, copper cable, optical fibre, cellular telecommunications, and are accessible via set-top boxes or suitably equipped computers.
See also National Information Infrastructure.
(2001-03-31)