Americans started the technology revolution, and we will drive it in the 21st century. Investments in information technology (IT), including health IT, smart grid, and broadband will continue to spur our economy, foster new growth, and connect smaller communities in places like West Virginia to new opportunities and a wider world around the globe.
We are only now starting to realize the enormous economic potential of perhaps our greatest technological contribution to the world in the last 50 years: the Internet. American research and investment in supercomputing, cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, data mining, social computing, simulation and modeling will all pay great dividends for our innovation economy in the years to come.
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