Infoworld Article: Bush official delivers wake-up call to IT industry

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Thu, 2 May 2002 grlygrl201@aol.com wrote:

> Bush official delivers wake-up call to IT industry
> By Michael Vizard
> May 02, 2002 05:43 AM
>
> SALT LAKE CITY -- A senior official in the U.S. Department of Commerce
> called upon the IT industry to significantly raise its game when it
> comes to influencing public policy in order to avert having its
> interests subverted by more politically savvy industries such as the
> telecommunications sector and media content providers.

"We want to get 5 billion people online, not just 5 million," Bond said.
"But that won't happen without the IT industry being engaged in public
policy."

More like 1B I'd say, the 1B that have 20$/month to get online, and much
more importantly, have money to get online and BUY THINGS. As much as we'd
all like to believe we're still in the days of a .edu network, the internet
is now pure .com with less tolerance for people that arent buying things
every day. Heck most people aren't even net-worth enough to waste spam on,
spending all their time trying to find drinkable water or digging in the
dirt so rich people can have diamonds and cell phones :)

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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  beberg@mithral.com