Talk:Information superhighway

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Did Gore coin the phrase?

Shouldn't this be at "information superhighway"? I never heard the "information highway" form, always "information superhighway". - furrykef (Talk at me) 19:00, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Google shows 1.4M hits for 'information highway', but 1.9M hits for 'information superhighway'. I too have never heard of 'information highway' in all the years I have used the net. Phil webster 10:25, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Merge with 'Internet'? Redwolf24 00:27, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I think it should stay its own article. The Information Superhighway was a fictitious concept that was too idealistic and never materialized.  It represented people's imagination more than reality.  &mdash;Sean &kappa;. + 05:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, what a silly concept...shopping from home. That will never happen. --Al Gore

The term is inspired by Marshall McLuhan, who talked about superhighways of information. "the superhighways of thought and feeling" from p.22 of The Mechanical Bride.

Mathpower 8
My textbook has a (somewhat naïve and cute) couple of pages about this. Does anyone think that it could be worked into the article. I'll provide more info if you want. Alx xlA 21:13, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Popular Mechanics cover
There was a Popular Mechanics cover with this exact term. It would be nice to get that as a picture for Wikipedia. I highly doubt it is easily accomplished. --Voidvector (talk) 06:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

How does the profile of Al Gore's family members, political career and free adverts for the books he wrote in the section at the bottom of this page contribute to an encyclopaedia definition for a technical term? Mentioning that he used the phrase should be ample. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.73.200.245 (talk) 07:16, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

My rearrangement
My eye was caught by an apparent blunder: the text "The OED also cites usage of this term in three periodicals:" was followed not by three but by six bullets. Therefore I looked into the article history, found the three relevant bullets and left them intact. The remaining three items I "de-bulleted" and spread over the text in some logical places. In addition, I fixed an urban legend spread all over the internet about Nam June Paik inventing the term "information superhighway". 71.146.68.48 (talk) 17:33, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

UK usage
I recall that in the late 1990s, the UK media often used the term to refer to the Internet, which at the time appeared to be sloppy incorrect usage by the non-technically minded (though widespread enough to become accepted usage in due course); AFAIK in correct, technical usage the term referred to broadband, then a future vision of high-speed connection. The US sense of a specific unrealised project was not widely known in the UK and so the term wasn't used in that sense here. 93.96.236.8 (talk) 10:49, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

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