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Even IntelliMover isn't an ideal solution, however. For instance, it has no cable
that works when the old computer lacks a USB port and the new one lacks a parallel
port. And even if it works well, you still have to reinstall all your programs by hand –
a tedious process.
All of this is much easier in the Apple world. If you are moving up from an old
Macintosh to a new one, and both machines have Fire Wire ports – common on
Macintoshes – you can just link the two computers with a standard Fire Wire cable.
No special software is required.
After setting up the new Macintosh, you just reboot it while holding down the
«T» key. That puts the computer in a special mode in which it acts like an extra hard
disk on the old Mac, and it shows up on the old Mac's screen as a hard-drive icon. To
move data files and settings, you simply drag the contents of the «Home» folder from
the old Mac to the «Home» folder on the new one. Most programs can also be
transferred in a similar way, by simply dragging the icons representing them from the
Applications folder on the old machine to the Applications folder on the new one.
Someday, perhaps, Microsoft will come up with something just as simple and
effective for long-suffering Windows users. At least, we can dare to dream.
TEXT 7
TH E RO L E O F GO V ER NMENT I N TH E EVO L UTI O N OF TH E I NTER NET
This paper discusses the role of government in the continuing evolution of the
Internet. From its origins as a U.S. government research project, the Internet has
grown to become a major component of network infrastructure, linking millions of
machines and tens of millions of users around the world. Although many nations are
now involved with the Internet in one way or another, this paper focuses on the
primary role the U.S. government has played in the Internet's evolution and discusses
the role that governments around the world may have to play as it continues to
develop.
Very little of the current Internet is owned, operated, or even controlled by
governmental bodies. The Internet indirectly receives government support through
federally funded academic facilit ies that provide some netw ork-related s ervic es.
Increasingly, however, the provision of Internet communication services, regardless
of use, is being handled by commercial firms on a profit-making basis.
This situation raises the question of the proper long-term role for government in
the continued evolution of the Internet. Is the Internet now in a form where
government involvement should cease entirely, leaving private-sector interests to
determine its future? Or, does government still have an important role to play? This
paper concludes that government can still make a series of important c ontributions .
Indeed, there are a few areas in which government involvement will be vital to the
long-term well-being of the Internet.

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