isen.com: Amara's Law -- SMART Letter #63 How Networking Advances Screwed Up the Economy

by Roxane Googin



[For the last two years Roxane Googin and I have

participated in a small early-September telecom conference.

In 2000 I wish I had listened to her with my wallet (in

addition to my ears). In 2001, her warnings extended to

the larger economy. I convinced publicity-shy Googin that

her message needed to reach beyond her community of

portfolio managers, that it needed to reach policy makers,

corporate strategists and other decision makers if we're to

avoid a Japan-style permacession and get the communications

revolution -- and economic growth -- back on track. Below

is what Googin said early last September -- David I]