We could name-drop some more, but you get the idea. The forum is ESI's big annual event, and getting bigger every year. ESI expects 800 to 1,000 attendees for the three-day global cram session. But that still won't pay the bills. Rich or poor, nearly everybody can cruise the information superhighway, argues Adam Thierer of the Heritage Foundation in a recent Heritage study.
Internet access is inexpensive and often free.
Besides, Thierer notes that computers are now cheaper than new television sets. And don't expect the folks over at the American Enterprise Institute to be celebrating Equal Pay Day on Thursday. That's the day of the year when women's cumulative earnings from January 1999 to the present supposedly will equal what men made last year. The average full-time working woman earns 74 percent of what a man does. That means women have to work an extra 135 days to match what men made in 1999.