By The Year 2000, Most Americans Will

In The World Of Computers And Just Devices In General, The Lifespan, Or The Shelf Life, Is Relatively Short Just Because Technology Moves So Fast And The Costs Drop So Quickly And The Power, Whether It's Computing Power Or Memory Rises Very, Very Quickly.

Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.

My Advice To Graduates Is To Do Anything Except What You Are Trained For. Take That Training To A Place Where It Is Out Of Place And Stimulate Ideas, Shake Up Establishments, And Don't Take No For An Answer.

I'm Not Against Paying At All. What I'm Against Is The Complexity Of Paying. And You Very Often Go To A Website And You Try To Click On Something And Sometimes It Will Even Say It's Free, But You Have To Fill Out This Form.

The Best Way To Guarantee A Steady Stream Of New Ideas Is To Make Sure That Each Person In Your Organization Is As Different As Possible From The Others. Under These Conditions, And Only These Conditions, Will People Maintain Varied Perspectives And Demonstrate Their Knowledge In Different Ways.