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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A VIEW OF THE FUTURE

This research provides an overview of what the future may hold in store in the area of telecommunications. While specific technologies and applications are addressed in this overview, the broader thrust of the research considers the coordinated telecommunications infrastructure which must be developed and expanded, if the potential of telecommunications technologies are to be realized over the next decade or two. Although this overview is developed from a private sectorbusiness, industry, and professionalperspective, it is obvious that telecommunications are equally as important for public sector organizations, for households, and for individuals.

Telecommunications transmission technologies blossomed in the decade of the 1980s, and the pace of innovation is quickening in the 1990s. The new technologies create opportunities for organizationspublic sector and private sector, households, and individuals to improve both the effectiveness and the efficiency of their communications. Unfortunately, these opportunities are often thwarted by the chaos which accompanies dynamic technological innovation. The tremendous promise of telecommunications technology for the future may not be fully realized in the absence of the development of a telecommunications infrastructure for both the American economy and the international economy. Michael Dertouzos (1991, p. 29), professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described the problem confronting telecommunications users as follows:

Imagine the United States without its highways. Our millions of cars, buses, and trucks would be driven in our own backyards and neighborhood parking lots, with occasional forays by the daring few along uncharted, unpredictable, and treacherous dirt roads, full of unspeakable terrors.

A ridiculous picture? Perhaps, but its not far off the mark i...

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