
3-1-96. NYT: "Speed Record: One Trillion Bits a Second." Fujitsu, NTT and AT&T have succeeded, each separately, for the first time in transmitting information at the rate of one trillion bits a second through optical fiber. "Microsoft Backs Ratings System For the Internet." The system, called RSAC-1, will enable parents and teachers to censor Web sites due to violence, sexual themes, nudity or offensive language. Other companies support the PICS form of censorship in terror of market- share loss to the tele-vigilantes. [Gates told a Mexican sports stadium audience that no real money can be made on the Internet until it has the speed to interactively out-hypnotize television.] HYP_not
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