Which of the following are true?

Group of answer choices

all of these

Al Gore promoted the idea of high$-$speed telecommunications in the $1970$s and as Vice$-$President spearheaded the legislative effort to open up the network beyond military and scientific use.

Telecommunications advances are a double$-$edge sword because of the effects of increasing isolation and providing less information for people at the same time as increasing production costs and consumer prices.

George Orwell portrayed in his novel $1984$ a world where individual citizens are empowered with information because of the computer and advanced telecommunications networks.

The intercomputer network, or Internet, was born from the $1960$s space race with the Russians and was kept a top secret until the U$.$S$.$ government sold it to the big telecommunications firms.