Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

National Information Infrastructure
     
         (NII, or "{information superhighway}") Future
        integrated communications in the USA.  The NII will be based
        on a nationwide network of networks, and will supposedly allow
        all Americans to take advantage of the country's information,
        communication, and computing resources.
     
        The NII will include current and future public and private
        high-speed, interactive, {narrow-band} and {broadband}
        networks.  It is the satellite, terrestrial, and wireless
        communications systems that deliver content to homes,
        businesses, and other public and private institutions.  It is
        the information and content that flows over the infrastructure
        whether in the form of {database}s, the written word, a film,
        a piece of music, a sound recording, a picture, or computer
        software.  It is the computers, televisions, telephones,
        radios, and other products that people will employ to access
        the infrastructure.  It is the people who will provide,
        manage, and generate new information, and those that will help
        others do the same.  And it is the individual Americans who
        will use and benefit from the NII.  The NII is a term that
        encompasses all these components and captures the vision of a
        nationwide, invisible, seamless, dynamic web of transmission
        mechanisms, information appliances, content, and people.
     
        {(http://sunsite.unc.edu/nii/NII-Table-of-Contents.html)}.
     
        (1995-04-08)