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Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
by losvedir 4y ago
Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
- desindol 4y agoFun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…
- aspyct 4y agoOMG this is... quite the misunderstanding -_-'
- peteradio 4y agoThat's amazing, I don't even care if its true.
- instance 4y agoCheck it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html "Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"
- mr_mitm 4y agoDoesn't confirm the "Because of this phrase" part of the claim.
- mtmail 4y agoIt got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.
- mcv 4y agoShouldn't it be the ministry for infrastructure?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoReminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.
- jamiek88 4y agoIn Texas the railroad commission is super powerful and responsible for oil and gas leases.
- sn41 4y agoThis makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!
- photochemsyn 4y agoThe Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.
- boole1854 4y agoUnless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.
- RedShift1 4y agoAre these servers communicating internationally? The department of foreign affairs would like to have a word.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoDepartment of Labor might have had something to say about crypto mining.
- therein 4y agoHow about OSHA? Mines fall under our purview.
- mseepgood 4y agoShouldn't it be linked to the agricultural department because of the phrase "Neuland"?
- gaius_baltar 4y agoBut it can only manage policies for Layer 4 and above, right? :)
- Eduard 4y agoHeavy "citation needed" here.
- dredmorbius 4y agoI recently learned that one of the major competition regulators in Germany is called the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA), which oversees electricity, gas, telecommunications, post, and railway markets. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Network_Agency> Given my own relatively recent realisation that virtually all industrial monopolies can be considered (sometimes with some mental gymnastics) as networks, this is an interesting bit of confirmation.
- the_jesus_villa 4y agoIronically, I just ran into this phrase last week while reading an anthropology paper from the 90's ("Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala") Whenever I hear this phrase it reminds me the part in the book Cryptonomicon where the pretentious humanities professor feels so clever for asking "How many slums will we bulldoze to build the Information Superhighway?"
- EvanAnderson 4y agoOh, ugh... Memories of all the awful road metaphor headlines of the time are flooding back-- "Breaking Down on the Information Superhighway", "Traffic Jams...",
- frank_nitti 4y agoUnfortunately that term brings an even more awful memory back for me and many others, as That enthusiasm was used for a brazen lie to the American public: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
- ulkesh 4y agoAnd, as evident in the video, its considerable overuse. I cringed watching this every time she said it beyond the first few times.
- illys 4y agoI heard that so many times in the 1990's in France, "les autoroutes de l'information". I knew that politicians were running after what the USA do, but I did not realize that they were also translating and recycling the very same words. I just realized it while watching that 1994 video :-)
- Jimajesty 4y agoI've been reading Douglas Copeland's 1994 novel "Microserfs" recently and there's a bit where the main character starts reading up on actual highway construction in response to the information superhighway.
- alcover 4y agoIs it as good as Generation X ? Also I'd love Coupland to reiterate and do a 'Generation Z' about zoomers and digital natives.
- Jimajesty 4y agoHe did write a sequel of sorts to Generation X called Generation A in 2009. I haven't read it so I can't comment on it, though I suspect it is already 'of it's time' in the way that, say, Microserfs is. It's a fun novel to be sure, for something that emanates a huge "now-ness circa 1994" it's still very enjoyable today, but maybe that's because I can vaguely remember life back then. I'd wonder what a younger reader might think about it?
- Eduard 4y agoGoogle Trends shows "information superhighway" is getting midly more popular again in recent time: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=information%20superhighway https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=informat...