Title The Gordian Knot : political gridlock on the information highway / W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, Richard Jay Solomon

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations Contents Political Gridlock -- The Nature of Networks -- The Network and the State -- Networks and Productivity -- Network Wars: A Pattern Emerges -- Cutting the Knot Summary "Technical change is here, not decades away, and the authors argue that it is driving a new paradigm that fits neither the free market nor the regulatory control model currently in play. They detail what is wrong with the political process of National Information Infrastructure policymaking and assess how different media systems (telecommunications, radio, television broadcasting, and the like) were originally established, spelling out the technological assumptions and organizational interests on which they were based and showing why the old policy models are now breaking down. The new digital electronic networks are not analogous to railways and highways or their electronic forebears in telephony and broadcasting - they are inherently unfriendly to centralized control of any sort, so the old traditions of common carriage and public trustee regulation and regulatory gamesmanship no longer apply. The authors' technological and historical analysis leads logically to a policy proposal for a reformed regulatory structure that builds and protects meaningful competition but abandons its role as arbiter of tariffs and definer of the public interest."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-305) and index Notes Print version record Subject Information technology -- Economic aspects -- United States Information technology -- Political aspects -- United States Internet -- Government policy -- United States Information networks -- Government policy -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Information networks -- Government policy Information technology -- Economic aspects Information technology -- Political aspects Internet -- Government policy United States Form Electronic book Author McKnight, Lee W Solomon, Richard Jay LC no. 97001580 ISBN 9780262280556 0262280558 0585296073 9780585296074 9780262140614 0262140616

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