It is a great pleasure to be here today. I'm always glad to have the chance to meet with the Social Security Administration, because our two agencies have such strong ties and have developed such a productive partnership over the years. How we adapt to this change will mean the difference between success and failure as a Federal workforce.
People talk all the time about the impact of new technology on our workforce and our society.
I am here to tell you that the impact is already being felt - it is real, it is significant, and for those caught unaware, it will be catastrophic. Well, these movies do have a basis in fact. Several million years ago, the Earth was struck by a giant asteroid. It leveled thousands of miles of the planet's surface, changed our climate permanently, and ended the million year reign of the dominant forms of life on the planet. And rest assured, it , and the other dramatic changes I will talk about, will kill our 20 th century dinosaurs - those organizations that cannot , or will not , adapt to the new global realities of the next millennium.