information superhighway

[Mullins, Bill]

 Al Gore is getting an award for his promotion of the internet:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gore_award
One of his contributions is popularizing the term "information
superhighway", it says.

OED has 1983 for Information Superhighway.

Here's an interesting precursor:

Snobbish Suburbs Warned to Grow Up, Woo Industry
JANE KERTZ
Chicago Daily Tribune; Sep 29, 1957; pg. NW1 [cite from p. 5, col 2]
"And since that entire construction field is so new -- what is needed is
a portfolio of information -- a two way information highway -- to exist
between architects of shopping centers and the fire insurance
companies."