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Katz, Richard N. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2004
Starting in the late 1960s, data networks were created to connect supercomputers and, later, other intelligent devices. A revolution in communications was in the making. By the late 1970s, computing and communications technologies were leading us from a world of local markets trading in capital goods to one of global markets trading in capital…
Descriptors: Communications, Information Technology, Computer Networks, Global Approach
West, Richard P.; Katz, Richard N. – EDUCOM Review, 1990
Presents a vision statement developed by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) that discusses the need to invest in academic computing to create an academic information environment based on network access to geographically dispersed resources. A model of potential investments that was developed for the University of California is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Educational Finance, Futures (of Society)