摘要:There is a saying that if you see a tusk sticking through your tent, you can assume there is an elephant outside. Those of us in Washington who focus on the politics of communications reform sometimes spend too much time focused on the tusks and not enough on what is standing just outside the tenL I would like to focus on one of those elephants the emergence of information as the central organizing force of our society and the world as embodied in the emerging Global Information Infrastructure ("GII").