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What is the nature of internet super highways

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  Introduction
  
  This paper aims to discuss some of the motivations behind the world's frenzied on-ramp building efforts in a bid to get onto the information superhighway. Many nations are optimistic that internet technology is leading us to an improved and brighter future, and that it offers many assurances to improve all areas of life- such as the internet connects businesses to their customers, the media to their readers, and the government to its citizens and the individual to the world. However, in the wake of all these optimism, without infrastructure in place, the internet will cease to exist altogether. And although new technologies are enhancing and improving opportunities worldwide, there are some limitations (hype) to internet technology that many of the superhighway building and utilizing nations do not address. This paper will seek to discuss these views.
  
  Building on-ramps
  
  Al Gore, Vice President of the United States of America coined the phrase 'Information superhighway'- a fancy synonym of the internet in 1994, during the unveiling of his new initiative the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The National Information Infrastructure was a key aspiration of Al Gore's reinventing government endeavour detailing America's future plans to get all of its population onto the internet at an easier, faster and cheaper rate (Gore, 1994).
  
  Converging technologies- the merging of technologies in the communications field and in the computer and information technology field has contributed significantly to the onset of the information age that the world is in today (Moynihan, 1995). The digitisation of text, voice and graphics, (i.e...