The Coming of Information Overload

The Information Highway Summit held in January at UCLA succeeded in bringing much attention to plans to create a national standard structure by which electronic information will be able to spread. You can tell the level of success by the number of commercials that make use of it. One commercial shows how everyone's life will be enhanced by the new national information highway while another says essentially the same thing in a more humorous way. Well, without drifting too far away from the point I am trying to make, I'd like to point out that these commercials are basically wrong -- they are promising too much.....