The Information Highway, hinted at in existing cable, telephone, and computer networking services, is another of these huge infrastructural giants, promising us jobs and education, but carrying the threat of economic dislocation and the erosion of state sovereignty. The danger, claims Menzies, is that since communications technologies "structure our lives and our consciousness," an Information Highway built and controlled by commercial interests will see our existence dominated by the "commodity principle"
Heather Menzies' Hyping the Highway
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