Now they may find themselves cast as cutting-edge players in the burgeoning high-tech world.
He also wants it to make him rich and turn the high-tech world on its ear.
Doing that will help the country and its companies retain an important niche in high-tech world.
Mr. Park said he has been thinking about ways to bring sewing machines into the high-tech world for 30 years.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
But most experts don't see that strategy as the best alternative in a high-tech world that has more reality-TV-loving consumers demanding an interactive process.
In essence, I am talking about the kind of knowledge work jobs that exist in the high-tech world and the advanced manufacturing plants of some major manufacturers.
Yet when you consider the herculean challenge of getting it here, even in today's high-tech world, you can't help feeling awestruck by the natural world and humanity's relative insignificance.
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Some 4, 000 people gathered on Sunday evening at the Venetian Hotel's Palazzo Ballroom in Las Vegas to hear Microsoft Chairman BillGatesBill Gates give his final speech to the high-tech world's mega-conference.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International (nyse: EIX - news - people ) Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
And there is no sign of the widespread mania in the high-tech world that occurred last time around: the NASDAQ stockmarket index, a bellwether for the tech industry, has been rising but is still far below its peak of March 2000.
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What makes Andreas so compelling is that once per month, the creator pours out in an essay on the site, his thoughts about living and working in the high-tech startup world.
As someone who evangelizes mobility full-time for an enterprise mobility software vendor in the most high-tech region in the world but was still issued a 4-year-old greige Dell laptop by my company, suffice to say that I am totally jealous of these kids.
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It could give Silicon Valley a chance to address the problems that threaten its long-term ability to remain the world capital of high-tech: an overburdened infrastructure, skyrocketing house prices and increasing social inequality.
And so, all around us there is growing evidence that the high-tech industry, especially the world of Internet-based business, will soon take flight again.
Emerging-market economies like Singapore, heavily dependent on high-tech exports to the industrial world, suffered an even greater economic contraction than America, their biggest customer, did.
The idea is to build the high-tech environment most of the world won't see for another decade and watch it generate new discoveries, demands and disciplines.
To emulate the high-tech, high-mech world of fast-paced automobiles.
There were no young, high-tech whizzes ready to storm the world with new ideas.
Heidelberg, Germany--I've just had a nineteenth century high tech experience--and a glimpse of the world to come.
He wants to become a professor so he can help America lead the world in high-tech industries of tomorrow.
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Why don't they ever ask why the high-tech and entrepreneurial ferment sweeping the world is almost entirely absent from Europe?
Companies in any industry can take a lesson from the world of high-tech, where the concept of agile development has taken hold, leading to unprecedented iterative and fast development times, and new ways of thinking about team dynamics.
You might perhaps expect that the must-have executive gadget was unleashed on the world from somewhere inside one of the high-tech hothouses of Silicon Valley.
These service charges are partly the offspring of the high-tech, always-on, connected world in which we live.
And Italy is becoming less innovative: a recent survey listed Italy as holding just 1.8% of the world's high-tech patents, against France's 7.3% and Germany's 15%.
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