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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 en

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mentary . . . forms . . . in limited" applications with respect to information retrieval and transmission services such as CompuServe, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, and Prodigy . . ." (Dertouzos, 1991, p. 33). A truly effective telecommunications infrastructure for the future, however, demands "common communications conventions . . . with universally understood means," which will be applied throughout the telecommunications infrastructure, regardless of application (Dertouzos, 1991, p. 32). The anticipation for the future is that the electronic forms will eventually be replaced by voice (Schott, 1990). Initially, it is anticipated that human users will be able to respond to voice prompts by the telecommunications hardware and software (Dertouzos, 1991). Eventually, however, it is predicted that the voice prompts will disappear, and that the telecommunications hardware and software will be capable of voice interaction with users for purposes of access and search (Dertouzos, 1991). In addition to the access and retrieval of information, common conventions will bring significant improvements to the transmission of electronic mailEmail. At present, Email is severely limited by the inability of the different Email services to i
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