About things places and people is a website with articles about our socio-economic society of today and how it will change in the years to come.

Are we prepared for a future based on technology?  Can our colleges and universities make the transitition from academics to technology?

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceded our humanity,"
Albert Einstein.

Standing on the horizon of life, our forefathers could never have predicted our present technology. Similarly, if we stand on that same horizon, we will not be able to predict the technology our children's children will experience. Predicting the future is too mind boggling.

The world in cyberspace has become flat.
China is only a stone's throw away. India has progressed to the point of becoming a leader in technology. All of China and India's students will speak fluent English when they finish school. Fifty years ago, both countries were nearly in poverty.

 China today has more internet users than there are numbers of people in the whole American population.