There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.

The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.

The big payoff for the future will be in helping knowledge workers to be more inventive and creative, and to get those innovations into the marketplace. That's where a wealthy nation like the United States is ultimately going to have to seek its competitive advantage.

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes…thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

Connecticut will only have a strong economic future if we provide opportunities for all workers to earn incomes that enable them to make ends meet for their families. While low-wage workers in the rest of the country are seeing their incomes improve, Connecticut workers are headed in the wrong direction.

I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.