The word "highway" is a misleading name of this phenomenon. This "highway" is more a social and commercial environment than a static network. The "highway" is composed of a network, and computing resources, but more importantly, the "highway" defines a new environment for people, and organizations to interact and communicate with each other. It is for these reasons that the building of such a "highway" must be done as a cooperative task force, rather than the more traditional service provider/ user model that has been used in the past. Based on these concepts the information highway can be defined as; "A location-independent user environment that uses high speed networking and computing for multimedia communications.