Flat Fee vs. Pay-per-use
Most Internet users are either not charged to access information,
or pay a low-cost flat fee. The Information SuperHighway, on the
other hand, will likely be based upon a pay-per-use model. On a
gross level, one might say that the payment model for the Internet
is closer to that of broadcast (or perhaps cable) television while
the model for the Information SuperHighway is likely to be more
like that of pay-per-view T.V.
'Pay-per-use' environments …
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…productions will be even further
marginalized. And the adoption of an asynchronous architecture
(a ten-lane highway coming into the library or home with a tiny path
leading back out) would pose a significant barrier to those seeking to be
information providers, and would favor a model of relatively passive
consumption. And the kind of massification and leveling of culture that
will follow is likely to be similar to the effects of broadcast television
on culture.
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