This is the real Africa, where a small part of the population quietly suffers the terror of knowledge, while the large majority unknowingly awaits the call to arms. Here, those who want to save Africa from another century of horror are, literally, in a dead heat against those who derive their power from misery and chaos. Frighteningly, both are armed with the latest technologies, the winner is far from predictable. This, not some Silicon Valley fantasy, is the real techno-future. This is the real world of the 21st century.
Death still crouches in the tall grass of cyberspace.
He has written several other highly praised business books and a novel about Silicon Valley, where he was raised. And you can talk back to Silicon Insider via e-mail or through an ongoing bulletin board. This is one in a series of weekly commentaries on business, technology and society from Forbes ASAP Editor Michael Malone. The Web Copyright 2000 ABC News Internet Ventures.