ther than to drive around town checking out all the Chevrolet dealerships in the Hampton Roads area. I found what I was looking for at the Chevy.com web site. It was so simple, I chose the model, color and options that I wanted, and I put it into one big package without the hassles of a sales person or bargaining with the sales manager. I even qualified for the financing online and received a great price as I eliminated the middleman. Within 30 minutes, I received a shipping and proposed delivery date that my brand new car was going to arrive. I just smile when Im asked why I bought my car online. It couldnt be any more obvious than if I was hit by a virtual reality sledgehammer. In my opinion, the future is in electronics, the future is in computers & computer software, the future is in the internet. My future was foretold in the ability to recognize these facts and do something about it. Opportunity for all requires something else today having access to a computer and knowing how to use it. That means we must close the digital divide between those whove got the tools and those that dont. (CLINTON 1). Technology only includes 8 percent of our employment, but now it counts for a third of our economic growth, along with jobs that pay about 80 percent above the private sector average. New e-commerce companies are starting up everyday, emulating their business model after some of the more successful companies that have recently made headlines and rocked Wall Street. Some are just defining an all-new route to success. Electronic commerce is a very new phenomenon it was fairly insignificant just 2 or 3 years ago. So here we have an industry with a predicted turnover of around 1500 billion within 3 years (in the US alone) and there are probably only a handful of people with more than 3 or 4 years hands on experience. This suggests two things to me. Firstly, there is going to be a severe skills shortage ...
