Keynote Address given by Bill Shireman, 10/17/07

...in little more than the last generation, a new set of industries grew up to OVERSHADOW the primary industries – a much more DIVERSE set of industries – providing for a much more RESILIENT economy:

An economy – of higher education, high technology, telecommunications, biotechnology.

Now THAT sector, the early INFORMATION sector, is in some ways undermining and overshadowing ITSELF, through evolutionary, revolutionary and DISRUPTIVE technologies – in high tech and biotech and the KNOWLEDGE economy.

These may seem to be CHALLENGES to sustainability, because they compel CHANGE...But just the opposite – they are the SEEDS of sustainability.  If you plant the seeds, and tend them well, you will GROW the next economy, right here... Read on!

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