1. Consumer electronics companies and PC manufacturers will converge into the _________ industry.

2. One reason information industries have traditionally been defined in terms of the form of information is because the government has actively constrained companies from entering other types of information businesses.

3. With information technology moving toward electronics and digitization, the structural transformation of the information industry is predicted to result in ___ major industries instead of ___.

4. Which of the following factors will be crucial toward the future of the information industry?

5. Convergent technologies will lead to worldwide end-to-end voice, data, fax, video, and image services and a global network that is both a transparent communications service and a platform for content-filled or content-enhanced services.

6. The five functions of information are creation, display, storage, processing, and ________.

7. It was the dramatic, and totally unexpected, growth in video-on-demand and interactive shopping that created the demand for more bandwidth to the residential marketplace.

8. All companies in the industry will have to focus on customers, as they provide the volume and velocity needed to achieve required price/performance ratios.

9. Today's information industry is characterized by which of the following?

10. Of the three new form-based industries, the transport area is farthest along in moving to the new model.