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Subject:Info. Tech. is Nation's Largest Industry From:Pat Gantt <pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:52:08 -0500
Techwhirlers...
given the following what do you think is in
the future for our chosen technical communications
field?
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS NATION'S LARGEST INDUSTRY
A study based on Commerce Department data and sponsored by the American
Electronics Association (AEA) and the Nasdaq stock market says that the
field of information technology (including both computing and
telecommunications) is now the nation's largest industry, ahead of
construction, food products, and automobile manufacturing. And the
AEA's
president took the occasion of the study's release to urge lawmakers to
learn more about technology: "Whether we like it or not,
high-technology
issues are going to be front and center in Washington and in state
capitals
during the next few years. At the state and national level, policy
makers
have a lot of positive impressions about the high-technology industry,
but
often very little knowledge of it. The biggest public policy threat to
the
high-technology field is the ignorance of technology and of how these
industries work." (New York Times 18 Nov 97)
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Pat Gantt
pagantt -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net
M.S. Human Resource Development
The University of Tennessee
Electronic Media Design & Support
