information superhighway
nounDefinition of information superhighway
: a telecommunications infrastructure or system (as of television, telephony, or computer networks) used for widespread and usually rapid access to information
especially
: internet
— called also infobahn, information highway
Examples of information superhighway in a Sentence
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Al Gore had been in the news talking about the Internet as the information superhighway. — Bud Selig And Phil Rogers, courant.com, "Bud Selig reflects on tenure as Commissioner, says Steinbrenner agreeing to let MLB control Yankees website was important day in baseball history," 15 July 2019 Click, click, click on the computer, on the information superhighway. — Christine Biederman, WIRED, "Inside Backpage.com’s Vicious Battle With the Feds," 18 June 2019 These guys are the ones who are sort of being left on the side road of the information superhighway. — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, "Can White Supremacists Unlearn Hate?," 13 Apr. 2018 Al Gore had been in the news talking about the Internet as the information superhighway. — Bud Selig And Phil Rogers, courant.com, "Bud Selig reflects on tenure as Commissioner, says Steinbrenner agreeing to let MLB control Yankees website was important day in baseball history," 15 July 2019 Click, click, click on the computer, on the information superhighway. — Christine Biederman, WIRED, "Inside Backpage.com’s Vicious Battle With the Feds," 18 June 2019 These guys are the ones who are sort of being left on the side road of the information superhighway. — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, "Can White Supremacists Unlearn Hate?," 13 Apr. 2018 By the time the World Wide Web was spinning up in the mid-90s, the GIF was paved right into the asphalt of the information superhighway. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.," 18 Aug. 2016 And with less disposable income to buy their way onto internet fast lanes, cohorts of color could find themselves in the back of the bus on the information superhighway. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "raceAhead: News Media Fails Black Families, Russell Simmons #NotMe, Another VC is Out," 15 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'information superhighway.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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