"We should get more infotech stocks to list for the market to recover, " he suggests.

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Six years ago Forbes ASAP went out on a limb and said infotech would crush inflation.

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At the dawn of infotech, we had some solid ideas about what technology could accomplish.

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Hong Kong, for its part, has stepped up efforts to germinate an infotech industry.

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"Barring a few like Infosys, the hype in infotech shares is a bubble, " warns R.

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Having taken infotech as the theme of the summit, host Japan put its money where its mouth was.

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There is a story in India about a bureaucrat asking a businessman what the government can do to push the infotech industry.

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Scientists, engineers, high-tech entrepreneurs, and advanced manufacturers will play a critical role, just as they have in strategic sectors like infotech, aerospace, and biotech.

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The second measure to bring infotech to the unwired masses is to just do it: give IT to them -- computers, web-phones, satellite and fiber-optic links, the works -- at low cost, if not for free.

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Up in the rooms infotech seminar leaders are slipping on company-logo polo shirts, wondering if they should hang up their towels or leave them on the floor for washing and thereby cause irreparable harm to the environment.

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