Posted by Orin Kerr: The Information Superhighway Metaphor: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_05_24-2009_05_30.shtml#1243562713
Internet law decisions and commentary from a decade ago frequently speak of the Internet as the "Information Superhighway." My sense is that the metaphor is no longer in much use, and I wonder if wireless Internet access killed it. If Internet access is everywhere, there's no room for a highway: the sense of a bulky passageway doesn't work anymore. Or maybe the problem is that we no longer log on to the Internet using a dial-up modem? The [1]noise made by dial-up modems did seem a little like ramping up onto something moving. References 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtqz0bdq30Q _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
