Almost 20 years ago close to 4, 000 people from 200 companies gathered in San Diego for a conference to discuss thefutureof health-care informationtechnology.
There are similar problems with another theory about thefutureofthe firm: that informationtechnology will slowly but surely deconstruct the company as we know it.
The IT commission was assembled to present Gilmore with "Investing in theFuture: Toward a 21st Century InformationTechnology Workforce, " a report that examines the ability ofthe state's IT industry to acquire and develop trained workers.
What makes me optimistic about thefuture is that we have not even begun to scratch the surface of all that can be accomplished by actually applying informationtechnology pervasively.
Whatever governments do, the combined effects ofinformationtechnology and globalisation are likely to make it easier for businesses to hide in the shadows in future.