Consequences include higher salaries and bigger signing and project completion bonuses. The technology industry is increasing its lobbying pressure for more H-1B visas. 01Oct99 applicants won't be admitted until early in 2000. The agency will launch an ad campaign to make IT seem less geeky to American teenagers. Higher pay for tech teachers is also recommended, plus training for older workers and closer links between schools and tech companies.
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Many techies are finding it addictive. The moderated discussions can be viewed by message date or by rated contribution to a thread. This could lead to 100B times the speed of a Pentium, with the power of 100 current workstations in a processor as small as a grain of salt. One molecular computer might have more transistors than in all of today's processors. Molecular computers might also directly sense and affect physical processes, including medical conditions.