Take the calculator, one of the early fruits of the microchip. Calculators are ubiquitous and so cheap today that the packaging costs more than the device itself. The calculator has made us all math geniuses. In a matter of seconds or minutes, we can now do the kinds of computations that used to take math whizzes hours or days to complete just 40 or 50 years ago. Some fear that the Information Age will leave many people behind.
Free enterprise brings everyone along.
Go to a supermarket. The dynamics of labor today are, in fact, the opposite of what they were in the Machine Age. The Machine Age meant big companies, big cities, big unions, big government. Today, if you have a big company, you almost have to apologize for it. You have to explain to people that size isn't going to hold you back, that it's not going to stand in the way of your being a fast company, of your being on the cutting edge.