Joe Lieberman: “in 1943, the chairman of a famous American electronics company said, ``I think there is a world market for maybe five…”

“in 1943, the chairman of a famous American electronics company said, ``I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.'' Good guess. Industry has repeatedly exceeded expectations like that one, and helped the American economy as a whole exceed expectations New questions are now reverberating from Silicon Valley to Pennsylvania Avenue. How do we catch the next great wave of innovation and ingenuity to unleash the next great boom of productivity and opportunity? How do we find new ways to translate our enormous technological prowess into real economic progress for the American people? I rise today to introduce what I believe will be a roadmap to revitalization. It's premised on the extraordinary promise of high-speed Internet to help us return to high-intensity growth; by revolutionizing the way we communicate and live our lives. Its goal is to highlight the challenges we face in tapping the transformative potential of broadband technology, to spur agreement on a national strategy for accelerating its development and deployment, and ultimately to help bring on what we all hope will be the broadband boom.”