Global sourcing is becoming a mainstream delivery model. The potential cost advantages are so persuasive that companies that do not consider it seriously risk doing their shareholders a disservice. Businesses will also be put at risk due to loss of competitive advantage and inability to focus on growth through innovation.

We estimate that up to 25% of traditional IT jobs in many developed countries around the world will be situated in emerging markets by 2010. There is no doubt that the predicted shift in jobs associated with global sourcing is a harsh reality. However, there is nothing new about technology causing massive shifts in how and where people work. This is an unavoidable outcome of how the global marketplace operates today and Western economies have been successful in navigating successive waves of economic transformation in the past.

One thing that perhaps isn't appreciated in the West is the huge potential that we have here.

I personally have still not heard a potential use of this technique, to produce a new person, that I would find ethically acceptable, ... ...on that basis, I hope that you're wrong.

[Not everyone shares Prince's enthusiasm for the synergistic potential between peer-to-peer file sharing and distributed computing.] Quite a few companies are trying to sell [distributed computing] under the p-to-p banner, ... While I think it is a nice idea, it is nothing new, and I think [United Devices] might have trouble finding people willing to pay for it.

[The Internet has the potential to be] a platform for the redesign of the health delivery system, ... that's pretty much brain dead.