The invention of the computer chip further democratized the availability of information. Cheap computers, the Internet, wireless and broadband technology has revolutionized how humans obtain and share information and ideas. Entertainment, education, news, commercial transactions are being redefined at ever increasing speeds. Today, product to market can happen in nano-seconds on the Internet. Last year more messages traveled by email than letters carried by snail mail.
State services are available at any time day or night.
Time and distance no longer inhibit government services. Access has been redefined. Today more than ever, you cannot answer these questions with the certainty your parents or grandparents would have when life was more predictable, when change occurred more slowly. And fortunately we live in a community with a wonderful University where higher education is available in a wide variety of subjects. Fortunately we live in a state where there is a constitutional responsibility to provide public education for all and where there has been support to do so in a way that provides young people opportunity and fulfillment.