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In point of fact, Information Superhighway is just a bureaucrat's buzz phrase. No one is even sure who first used it, though many people have accused Vice President A1 Gore. The term Information Superhighway is applied with stunning abandon these days, often erroneously, to mean just about anything linked to a wire--your telephone, your cable television, your doorbell. This is part of the confusion many people face, and surely part of their apprehension.