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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (7234)	3/14/2004 5:31:48 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Maybe We Could All Deliver Pizza . . . By Jodie T. Allen Sunday, March 7, 2004; Page B01 To hear the pessimists tell it, "Snow Crash" is right around the corner. You don't know "Snow Crash"? It was a turn-of-the-21st-century cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson, who foresaw a nightmarish future in which the "Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brick-maker would consider to be prosperity." And what the inexorable forces of comparative advantage thus revealed was that the U.S. economy would evolve to the point where Americans excelled at only four things: "music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery." Well, maybe we should scratch the microcode, since software companies have been outsourcing programming jobs to Asia at an accelerating pace. more ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35469-2004Mar6.html