The digital-bandwidth tornado is likely to remake the landscape far more quickly and rudely than Moore's Law did.

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There are more similarities than differences between Andrew Moore's view of an abandoned movie palace in Gary, Ind.

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More than two full generations of Moore's law (which says that the number of transistors squeezed on to a computer chip doubles every 18 months) have passed since the tech bubble burst, as have more than three generations of fibre-optics communications technology.

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The four subject areas were valued by potential employers more than any specialist knowledge, says Mr Moore.

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That twister tracked a path that included Moore, a southern suburb of more than 50, 000 people.

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Salvador Marin's house near the center of Moore was a pile of rubble, but slightly more recognizable than several nearby houses that looked like flattened tents.

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But he missed the beginning of the campaign with an elbow injury, allowing Stephen Moore a chance and the latter went on to score more than 1, 000 first-class runs in his first full campaign.

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As the sun rose over the shattered community of Moore, the state medical examiner's office cut the estimated death toll by more than half.

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Moore and Simon also report that more financial wealth was created in the United States from 1950 to 2000 than in all the rest of the world in all the centuries before 1950.

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