If we can make every American technologically literate, if we can make our Government wise not only in its own use of technology but in setting those conditions and giving those tools.

I know that the Forum on Communications and Society is also working hard to be a catalyst for change and for better and broader use of technology.

The new technologies that you use are also finding their ways into every sector of our economy, making companies of all kinds more competitive.

If not now, when will we ever step forward to bring the hope of a good job, decent health care, safe communities, quality education, and new technology to every corner of this Nation, from Penobscot, Maine, to Window Rock, Arizona?

We feel a high level of confidence about where we are with the Y2K problems.

Digital technology combined with medical science made this possible.

It is important that all of our children learn and that we develop a level of comfort with basic technology and basic scientific concepts.

I'm interested in maximizing the ability of our country to use technology for economic empowerment.

I believe technology, properly used, can not only give people a more interactive engagement in the political process.

My balanced budget would do this, while increasing investments in areas like education, technology, the environment, and defense.

The explosion of computer technology and the Internet...has literally made the distance barrier almost insignificant for many kinds of economic activity.

Computers and new educational software can make a real difference in the way teachers teach and a student learns.

Vice President Gore and I have set a goal of connecting every classroom in America to the Internet.

I'm pleased to announce that new Department of Education data show that more than half of all our Nation's classrooms are now connected—nearly twice as many connections as last year.

I look forward to working with the CEO forum and other leaders in industry and education to give every child and teacher in America access to these high-tech tools for learning.

Teachers must be as comfortable with a computer as they are with a chalkboard.

I especially commend the Congress for authorizing the NSF's participation in the Next Generation Internet Program.

Science, engineering, and technology are potent forces for progress and achievement.