The high-tech revolution is three business days in one. Technology is changing the way each of works, talks, learns, and lives. It offers extraordinary opportunities for those who are prepared, and, frankly, very real dangers for those who are not. Although we cannot predict the future, we can prepare for it. We can, as Al From says, continue to expand the winner s circle, and in the process expand the circle of hope in our country.
Businesses today have unprecedented freedom.
In an age when weightless, sizeless, colorless bits of information which move back and forth across the globe at the speed of light, companies build ventures wherever they find the ingredients they need to succeed. Some are looking for the cheapest labor. Some are looking for the best. And so we face a choice. Of course, it s no choice at all.