The wired city: Problem boundaries with municipal government, health care delivery, education, state services and the informed public

This paper considers some of the sociological problems and benefits which must be anticipated by any community which is planning a major TV cable system with a large, on-line computer system at the cable head, providing a large-scale data retrieval and store-and-forward system. We will confine the discussion to the impact of (and on) the provision of data services. The University of Illinois experiment has already shown the basic technical feasibility of such a system for 4000 active users.1