Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of the telecommunications infrastructure / Robert L. Lucky
  • The search for the holy paradigm : regulating the information infrastructure in the 21st century / Charles M. Firestone
  • Current and future uses of information networks / Colin Crook
  • The changing nature of telecommunications and the information infrastructure for health care / Edward H. Shortliffe
  • Can K-12 education drive on the information superhighway? / Robert Pearlman
  • Future roles of libraries in citizen access to information resources through the national information infrastructure / Clifford A. Lynch
  • Government regulation and infrastructure development / Robert W. Crandall
  • State regulatory policies and telecommunications/information infrastructure / Robert G. Harris
  • The prospects for meaningful competition in local telecommunications / Dale N. Hatfield
  • Regulation and optimal technological change : not whether, but how / Nina W. Cornell
  • The future of telecommunications regulation : the hardwork is just beginning / Thomas J. Long
  • Costs and cross-subsidies in telecommunications / Bridger M. Mitchell
  • Economic ramifications of the need for universal telecommunications service / Eli M. Noam
  • Government investment in telecommunications infrastructure / Walter S. Baer
  • Federal investment through subsidies : pros and cons / Bridger M. Mitchell
  • Telecommunications infrastructure from the carrier's point of view / Charles L. Jackson
  • An information provider's perspective on government investment in the telecommunications infrastructure / William F. Gillis
  • Economic dividends of government investment in research and technology development / Robert E. Kahn
  • Perspective of the noncarrier transport provider / Laura L. Breeden.