Switching to MBE technology has been crucial to success.

Having access to qualified leads as compared to inquiries is critical to success ? and is a constant concern for technology and business marketers. Every moment a sales person has a qualified lead, he or she spends more time selling, and less time trying to get to the right person. Marketplace solutions that focus on supplying qualified leads accurately are keenly needed by cost-conscious, return-driven organizations today. Achieving near 90% accuracy in our Super Plans is phenomenal, in a business world where plans and budgets for purchasing are constantly changing.

As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

MIT has always been key to NASA's success. Our people, technology development and scientific investigations have been intertwined since the earliest days of the space program.

We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!