Scale Will Get You Strategy.

Computing Is Not About Computers Any More. It Is About Living. Whatever Big Problem You Can Imagine, From World Peace To The Environment To Hunger To Poverty, The Solution Always Includes Education, ... We Need To Depend More On Peer-to-peer And Self-driven Learning. The Laptop Is One Important Means Of Doing That.

But Just As Elevators Have Changed The Shape Of Buildings And Cars Have Changed The Shape Of Cities, Bits Will Change The Shape Of Organizations, Be They Companies, Nations, Or Social Structures.

When You Meet A Head Of State, And You Say, 'what Is Your Most Precious Natural Resource?' They Will Not Say Children At First, And Then When You Say, 'children,' They Will Pretty Quickly Agree With You.

The Change From Atoms To Bits Is Irrevocable And Unstoppable. Why Now? Because The Change Is Also Exponential - Small Differences Of Yesterday Can Have Suddenly Shocking Consequences Tomorrow.

Programming Allows You To Think About Thinking, And While Debugging You Learn Learning.