Innovators in the green information-technology movement reap good publicity from their ever-higher standards of energy efficiency.

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But if the Internet by itself seems unlikely to boost economic efficiency by as much as this, the productivity gains from information technology and the Internet together could easily come close.

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Surely in the information age, we can bring to bear the power of technology to enhance the efficiency and transparency of the regulatory infrastructure itself, while preserving the intent and purpose of legislation.

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According to Fuller, the Connected Urban Development pilots helped to show how cities can accelerate their transition to sustainability, reduce CO2 emissions, increase energy efficiency, and decrease waste, all by harnessing the basic information and communications technology available in wireless networks.

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Over the last 30 years, there have been amazing advances in our abilities to combat human disease and equally impressive innovation within information technology that has changed the way we live, yet there has been staggeringly little application of innovation to the efficiency of our healthcare system.

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Since November, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a "smarter" national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency -- and to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.

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