... which was the very first computer network, was called ARPANET (ARPA NETwork). The developers built ARPANET with a goal of creating a network that was damage-proof, therefore being an effective communication method for military use in the event of a nuclear war (Leiner, Barry. http://www.isoc.org ). As ARPANET grew in the 1970s, with more and more universities and institutions connecting to ... recent years. Estimates predict that the total Internet revenues for 2001 are approximately 20 billion U.S. dollars (Clemente, Peter C. pg 44-45). These values show that the Internet has become a m...

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... Information Infrastructure, which would link every business, home, school and college (Cooke 64). That is why the Clinton administration has made the building of an improved data highway the main component of a determined plan to strengthen the U.S. economy in the 21st century (Silverstein 8). This improved national computer network will be called The Information Superhighway, which is nothing but an improved version ... of the patient. Sensors in the doctor's gloves, which will control robot-like hands on the other end, will detect the position of the doctors fingers (Eddings 156). Sin...

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