You wouldn't want to call it a silver lining to the crowds queuing solemnly outside the Alamo, but the day Davy Crockett and his men died was the day chilli con carne was born.
Michael Egan made a mid-nine-figure fortune building Alamo Rent-A-Car into an industry powerhouse, and though he isn't much of a gear-head, his decades in the travel business convinced him that we haven't even begun to see the changes that will be wrought by information technologies.