From Habitat to Global Cyberspace

F. Randall Farmer, Chip Morningstar, Douglas Crockford

Electric Communities
electric@netcom.com

Abstract

Cyberspace.
Interactive Television.
Networked Multimedia.
The Great Convergence.
The Information Superhighway.
The National Information Infrastructure.
These are all names for the same thing: a huge network connecting people 
to other people using computers.  Billions  of dollars are being 
invested to develop this connectivity, ignoring the experience already 
available from the online industry.  Cyberspace is the next important 
telecommunications paradigm: many-to-many communications.  The authors 
relate their experiences with  the Habitat and AMiX online services to 
outline the nature of the emerging Global Cyberspace Infrastructure.

Keywords: Cyberspace, Interactive Television, Networked Multimedia, The 
Great Convergence, Information Superhighway, Data Highway, National 
Information Infrastructure, Habitat, AMiX, networks, many-to-many, 
telecommunications, decentralization, community, cable, operating 
systems, Japan