Like Roosevelt students, they use creative solutions to make real change. The last thing I want to say today has to do with service and the important role it must play in our lives in the next century. The next eight months, the last of the 20 th Century, are sure to be interesting ones for all of us. There will be countless television specials about the great lessons of this century-about how a century ravaged by the tragedies of war and conflict has also experienced the greatest leaps in wealth, science, technology, population, and culture that the world has ever seen. We are a more inter-connected world than we've ever been.
Information travels across continents in milliseconds.
A thousand new books are published each day. Over a billion e-mails are sent each day. When President Clinton took office seven years ago, there were 55 Web sites on the Internet. Today, we are adding nearly 100,000 sites a day. Technology has made this possible.