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...SILICON VALLEY GOLD...
Want a job? tool-and-die companies in Toledo, Ohio, are so strapped for skilled help that they're recruiting in Russia, where good workers are shivering and unemployed. Or think about Silicon Valley, where two jobs await every qualified applicant and an astonishing 18,000 technical and managerial slots remain unfilled. If you always wanted to be in show business, here's your big chance: booming Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, will together add more than 30,000 jobs, from top management to ticket takers, over the next three years. "I've got opportunity everywhere," says...
...reflect a tireless expansion and fundamental shifts in the workplace that have created more than 11 million new jobs since 1991, slashed unemployment to 5.3% and turned the country into the world's hottest job machine. The same forces that have brought high-tech labor shortages to regions from Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128 corridor are fast transforming Rocky Mountain states from energy, ranching and mining to hubs for job-rich information industries. In parts of the Midwest, manufacturers that survived the industrial meltdown of the past two decades are now the most competitive exporters on earth...
...overflow at local public schools in a testament to the hectic growth of the area.) The East Coast headquarters of Cisco Systems, planning to boost its work force from 550 employees to 2,000 in the near future, is hiring at an even faster clip than company plants in Silicon Valley. "We chose North Carolina for a number of reasons," says Cliff Meltzer, who runs Cisco's Research Triangle facility. "But none was more important than the region's ability to produce and attract well-educated and qualified workers...
...meal and uses whichever hand is free to gesture or scribble notes. "All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion," he explains. "We can someday replicate that on a machine." Earthly life is carbon based, he notes, and computers are silicon based, but that is not a major distinction. "Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system." The notion, he admits, is a bit frightening, but he jokes that it would also be cheating. "It's like reverse...