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The Unpredictable Certainty:

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Publication Year:1997


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NII 2000 Steering Committee, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council
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Front Matter i-xiv  
The National Information Infrastructure and the Earth Sciences: Possibilities and Challenges 1-9 (skim)
Government Services Information Infrastructure Management 10-17 (skim)
Cutting the Gordian Knot: Providing the American Public with Advanced Universal Access in a Fully Competitive Marketplace at the Lowest Possible Cost 18-25 (skim)
The Role of Cable Television in the NII 26-30 (skim)
Competing Definitions of 'Openness' on the GII 31-37 (skim)
Communications for People on the Move: A Look into the Future 38-43 (skim)
Building the NII: Will the Shareholders Come? (And if They Don't, Will Anyone Really Care?) 44-56 (skim)
The Electronic Universe: Network Delivery of Data, Science, and Discovery 57-66 (skim)
An SDTV Decoder with HDTV Capability: An All-Format ATV Decoder 67-75 (skim)
NII and Intelligent Transport Systems 76-84 (skim)
Post-NSFNET Statistics Collection 85-96 (skim)
NII Road Map: Residential Broadband 97-100 (skim)
The NII in the Home: A Consumer Service 101-109 (skim)
Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments 110-122 (skim)
Electric Utilities and the NII: Issues and Opportunities 123-132 (skim)
Interoperation, Open Interfaces, and Protocol Architecture 133-144 (skim)
Service Provider Interoperability and the National Information Infrastructure 145-155 (skim)
Funding the National Information Infrastructure: Advertising, Subscription, and Usage Charges 156-164 (skim)
The NII in the Home 165-167 (skim)
The Evolution of the Analog Set-Top Terminal to a Digital Interactive Home Communications Terminal 168-177 (skim)
Spread ALOHA Wireless Multiple Access: The Low-Cost Way for Ubiquitous, Tetherless Access to the Information Infrastructure 178-184 (skim)
Plans for Ubiquitous Broadband Access to the National Information Infrastructure in the Ameritech Region 185-189 (skim)
How Do Traditional Legal, Commercial, Social, and Political Structures, When Confronted with a New Service, React and Interact? 190-200 (skim)
The Internet, the World Wide Web, and Open Information Services: How to Build the Global Information Infrastructure 201-204 (skim)
Organizing the Issues 205-208 (skim)
The Argument for Universal Access to the Health Care Information Infrastructure: The Particular Needs of Rural Areas, the Poor, and the Underserved 209-216 (skim)
Toward a National Data Network: Architectural Issues and the Role of Government 217-227 (skim)
Statement on National Information Infrastucture Issues 228-232 (skim)
Proposal for an Evaluation of Health Care Applications on the NII 233-236 (skim)
The Internet - A Model: Thoughts on the Five Year Outlook 237-240 (skim)
The Economics of Layered Networks 241-247 (skim)
The Fiber-Optic Challenge of Information Infrastructure 248-255 (skim)
Cable Television Technology Deployment 256-270 (skim)
Privacy, Access and Equity, Democracy, and Networked Interactive Media 271-279 (skim)
As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII 280-285 (skim)
The Use of the Social Security Number as the Basis for a National Citizen Identifier 286-291 (skim)
Estimating the Costs of Telecommunications Regulation 292-303 (skim)
Residential PC Access: Issues with Bandwidth Availability 304-314 (skim)
The National Information Infrastructure: A High Performance Computing and Communications Perspective 315-334 (skim)
Nomadic Computing and Communications 335-341 (skim)
NII 2000: The Wireless Perspective 342-350 (skim)
Small Manufacturing Enterprises and the National Information Infrastructure 351-363 (skim)
Architecture for an Emergency Lane on the NII: Crisis Information Management 364-373 (skim)
Aspects of Integrity in the NII 374-377 (skim)
What the NII Could Be: A User Perspective 378-387 (skim)
Role of the PC in Emerging Information Infrastructures 388-396 (skim)
NII Evolution - Technology Deployment Plans, Challenges, and Opportunities: AT&T Perspective 397-404 (skim)
Enabling Petabyte Computing 405-411 (skim)
Private Investment and Federal National Information Infrastructure Policy 412-415 (skim)
Thoughts on Security and the NII 416-421 (skim)
Trends in Deployments of New Telecommunications Services by Local Exchange Carriers in Support of an Advanced National Information Infrastructure 422-433 (skim)
The Future NII/GII: Views of Interexchange Carriers 434-446 (skim)
Technology in the Local Network 447-461 (skim)
Recognizing What the NII Is, What It Needs, and How to Get It 462-468 (skim)
Electronic Integrated Product Development as Enabled by a Global Information Environment: A Requirement for Success in the Twenty-first Century 469-478 (skim)
Interoperability, Standards, and Security: Will the NII Be Based on Market Principles? 479-491 (skim)
Technology and Cost Models for Connecting K-12 Schools to the National Information Infrastructure 492-510 (skim)
Geodata Interoperability: A Key NII Requirement 511-520 (skim)
Electronic Commerce 521-537 (skim)
Prospects and Prerequisites for Local Telecommunications Competition: Public Policy Issues for the NII 538-545 (skim)
The Awakening 3.0: PCs, TSBs, or DTMF-TV - Which Is Right for the Next Generation's Public Network? 546-552 (skim)
Effective Information Transfer for Health Care: Quality versus Quantity 553-559 (skim)
Integrating Technology with Practice: A Technology-enhanced, Field-based Teacher Preparation Program 560-575 (skim)
RegNet: An NPR Regulatory Reform Initiative Toward NII/GII Collaboratories 576-604 (skim)
Electronic Document Interchange and Distribution Based on the Portable Document Format, an Open Interchange Format 605-617 (skim)

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