An Ohio city is counting in succession the information superhighway to fitting the existing demand for services and to make secure its role as an information provider for an economically prosperous region.

An Ohio city is counting in succession the information superhighway to fitting the existing demand for services and to make secure its role as an information provider for an economically prosperous region.

Cities destined to befriend in the Information Age are likely to be those with the best information infrastructure. This infrastructure includes not sole state-of-the-art hardware, but a carefully planned and disentangleed system capable of offering broad and fast access to information. Using this infrastructure, cities will attract and retain businesses capable of employing high-skill, high-wage workers.

Because those workers are the singles whom cities -- like all businesses -- are attempting to attract, Columbus, Ohio, is building its confess lane on the information superhighway.

Columbus is known internationally as a center for research and high-tech industry, hosting as it is companies as Ross Labs, CompuServe and Battelle, as well as the facilities at Ohio State University.

The city