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    NREN

    By Jean Armour Polly

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      NREN - Jean Armour Polly

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of NREN for All: Insurmountable Opportunity, by Jean Armour Polly

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. **

      Title: NREN for All: Insurmountable Opportunity

      Author: Jean Armour Polly

      Posting Date: December 23, 2011 [EBook #56] Release Date: March, 1993

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NREN FOR ALL ***

      NREN for All:

      Insurmountable Opportunity

      c. 1993 Jean Armour Polly Manager of Network Development and User Training NYSERNet, Inc. jpolly@nysernet.org

      This was originally published in the February 1, 1993 issue of

      Library Journal (volume 118, n. 2, pp 38-41).

      It may be freely reprinted for educational use, please let me know if you

      are redistributing it, I like to know if it's useful and where it's been.

      Please do not sell it, and keep this message intact.

      When Senator Al Gore was evangelizing support for his visionary National Research and Education Network bill, he often pointed to the many benefits of a high-speed, multi-lane, multi-level data superhighway. Some of these included:

      — collaborating research teams, physically distant from each other, working on shared projects via high speed computer networks. Some of these grand challenges might model global environmental change, or new therapeutic drug research, or the design of a new airplane for inexpensive consumer air travel.

      — a scientist or engineer might design a product, which could be instantly communicated to a manufacturing plant, whose robotic machine could turn the drawing-board product into reality. One example of this is the capability to digitally measure a new recruit for an army uniform, transmit the information to a clothing manufacturer, and take delivery of a custom-tailored uniform the next day.

      — access to digital libraries of information, both textual and graphic. Besides hundreds of online public access catalogs, and full text documents, color illustrations of photographic

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