FIVE Hong Kong students will meet top mainland officials next month to get a glimpse of the information superhighway's development in the China.
Computer science graduate from the University of Science and Technology, Almon Kwan Man-leung, 22, said the term 'information superhighway' referred to the transfer of information via computer, telephone or TV.
The system's major advantage was its accessibility and its high degree of interactivity.
The student-initiated scheme, called 'Project Foresight', aims to find out the likely impact of interactive technology on people's access to entertainment in the next five years.
'It used to be that TV viewers were passive, receiving whatever the directors and producers broadcast,' said Mr Kwan.
'But with the new interactive technology, the viewers can choose different endings to TV programmes and even movies, which makes the viewers active partners.
