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Fiber Antics: Practical Lessons in Building a Municipal Fiber Optic Network
Grant, August E. , Ph.D.
Berquist, Lon
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Draws lessons from the city of Austin, Texas and its process to select a company to build a broadband network to provide telephone, cable TV, digital video, and digital data services. Readers may find the city's selection very interesting and insightful. It is hoped this information will be useful to companies wishing to work with city governments on advanced telecommunications networks.

Sharpening the Videoconference Target
Grant, August E. , Ph.D.
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The author takes the position that videoconferencing has not yet reached the "critical mass" necessary for dramatic growth across markets. He begins the article with a brief look at an incredibly practical theory relating to the adoption of interactive technologies, using fax technology to illustrate the theory. The theory is then used to illustrate one of the biggest hurdles that videoconference technology must vault before becoming as ubiquitous as comparable technologies.

The Passive Audience for Interactive Technology
Grant, August E. , Ph.D.
Meadows, Jennifer Harman
Handy, Susan L. , Ph.D.
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The authors explore the implications of people who watch and/or buy from television shopping services. They take the research a step further and discuss the implications of the "passive consumer" for almost any emerging interactive technology.

Will TVs and PCs Converge? Point and Counterpoint
Grant, August E. , Ph.D.
Shamp, Scott A. , Ph.D.
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Presents two sides of the debate on whether technological, organizational, and social factors related to computers and televisions have gotten to the point that the two devices are converging into an "information appliance." The authors consider factors impeding convergence, then take a look at factors pushing convergence.

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