BT goes behind the scenes for an exclusive report of the company's hush-hush revolution. It isn't on, but will soon be. Over the next few years, the 150 million people the country added to its population in the 10 years between '75 and '85, enter the workforce after gaining some sort of education. But there may be few jobs going. The agriculture sector is in a mess.
Small industries are either dead or dying.
And companies are loath to add to their workforce given the country's archaic labour laws. Welcome to the decade of jobless growth. As a worldwide race to sift through genes, proteins, and create cellular libraries cranks up, a clutch of start-ups heads for a new frontier of opportunity on the cusp of biology and infotech, called bioinformatics. Nobody knows when most of these companies will hit pay dirt. But that isn't stopping 30-something scientists or IT entreprenuers from taking the leap.