Abstract

Is one man’s vision of a national network of information beginning to take hold? Will this technological transformation be as profound in the 21st century as the transcontinental railroad was in its time? Will a new infrastructure result to increase American competitiveness? Read about this scientist who is an entrepreneur with a nonprofit company in this survey, reprinted by permission, from the Business Section of The New York Times of 2 Sept. 1990. The New York Times Company.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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