The highlights of the summary, presented below, should be of interest to everyone i n academia. IT is having an increasing impact on how we teach and our students learn, both inside and outside the classroom. Looking forward to receiving your comments, ideas, and contributions.
Information technology is America's number one export.
Total employment in the IT industry is 2.5 million and is expected to grow to five million over the next five years. Future memory chips will be able to store 64 million bits of information, the equivalent of 4,000 pages of typewritten text. Of 264.6 million people in the United States, one in four persons age 16 and older now use the Internet. Nearly three million children in the United States are plugged into cyberspace from home, and the number is projected to grow fourfold by 2002. Sixty-five percent of the nation's schools have access to the Internet, and 14 percent of the classrooms are linked to it.