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Uses Internet as a springboard in envisioning the network of the future and its components such as the national information infrastructure, information networks, databases, and consumer electronics, and the architecture required to construct it. Discusses cost, pricing, and funding for network development and use; freedom of expression and privacy issues; the government's role; and issues confronting the education, research, and library communities. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.