Computer technology will continue to advance. The initiative, called Information Technology for the Twenty-First Century or IT 2 for short, is intended to strengthen America's leadership in IT, advance computing and communications to enhance our lives, and help train IT workers. Roughly 60 percent of the funding will go to support university-based research, which will also help meet the growing demand for workers with advanced IT skills. The government's investment in IT research in the 1960s helped to spawn today's Internet. A congressman at the time, it was Al Gore who popularized the term Information Superhighway more than 20 years ago.
Information technology pays well.
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