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Excerpt from Oregon and the Information Superhighway: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, Portland, Or, January 13, 1994 It will mean that Oregonians no longer have to live in a certain place, work for a certain company, or go to a certain school to have access to the most advanced technology and information available. Telemedicine, distance learning, business information networks and telecommuting are just some of the services that can liberate Oregonians for more control over their lives. Second, the vast majority of our businesses are small. While small businesses have some real advantages, they also face special challenges; access to capital and credit, the capacity to fund te search and development, and access to information about new mar kets, especially the lucrative foreign markets that are so important for our State. Advanced telecommunications systems can help small businesses design flexible manufacturing systems that enable them to pool their resources to conquer large problems. They can help companies share crucial information about potential sources of financing and enable them to communicate with customers around the world without the need of a large globe-trotting sales force. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.