While entertainment applications will drive the connection of homes to the National Information Infrastructure, Vice President Gore has set the additional ambitious challenge of interconnecting all schools and libraries by the turn of the century. But other than "video on demand," what kinds of things will the average American citizen be able to do with this "information infrastructure" when it becomes a reality? This section provides example descriptions of how the infrastructure will be used in the 21st century, by the common citizen as well as scientists, engineers, and business people.