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wireless
communication and powerful portable devices
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lead
to new computing paradigms:
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mobile
computing
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ubiquitous
computing
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nomadic
computing
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at
the same time, the Internet and in particular the Web, are
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growing
exponentially
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timely
news (and lots of it), user-friendly(?), lots of pretty pictures
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(70%-80%
of Internet traffic is WWW traffic)
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the
“Information Superhighway” is where people want to be
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certainly
strong support by national governments to build and
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maintain
this infrastructure
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mobile
computing seen as “on-ramp” to this infrastructure
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