If students have technical training by the time they graduated from High School, they will be able to find more rewarding and higher paying jobs. Young people must focus on technology based jobs in engineering, marketing or business management. A strong knowledge and understanding of technology will be critical for engineers, technicians and those in marketing and management as well. Today s technology is tomorrow s obsolescence. Product cycles are becoming shorter than ever.
Many products are obsolete within twelve months of their initial introduction.
The global access to information promises to create immense competition through the leveling of the business playing field. Single or small groups of companies can no longer control information, effectively creating monopolies. The free exchange of information is one of the key beneficiaries of our current technological advances. Information races across the Internet from Tokyo to Los Angeles and London to Moscow almost instantaneously. Small companies can compete more effectively with their big brethren, using this instantaneous information and a technically trained workforce.