Travelling the superhighways to the future [education technology]

The accelerating changes that are taking place in information access, in particular the much vaunted information superhighways with the possibility of global interconnectivity, promise new opportunities for business and education. There is a strong interaction between the development of new telecommunication networks and the concept of the virtual organisation. The paper suggests that the UK is in a better position than most countries to exploit the new potential although there are impediments