The first one being probably the entry, on a large scale, of computers and information technology.

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The next chart from McKinsey tells the story: More than half of total productivity growth comes from computers and information technology.

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CTCs are public housing facilities, libraries and community centers nationwide designed to provide myriad services, including work force development and employment information, pre-school and family programs and adult education, all of which use computers and information technology to meet people's needs.

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They often invest respectable sums in computers and information technology but do not seem to reap the same productivity gains from it as many American firms, according to John van Reenen and Nick Bloom of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

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Computers and software--a.k.a. information technology--should maintain 5% to 6% global growth this year despite the U.S. slowdown, reports market research firm IDC.

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Investment by schools in information technology has risen following the government's promise that every child will have access to computers and the internet at school.

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Atalla is indeed a father of information security technology, and he says he is working on a new advance that will make all computers much more secure than any of us think we can expect.

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