Going forward, I support a doubling of basic Information Technology research and continue to promote the Next Generation Internet initiative to help develop new technologies that allow us to reach network speeds up to 1000 times faster than today's Internet. I also support making the R&D tax credit permanent to spur greater private sector innovation.

In other areas, I believe that government, industry, and the non-profit sector must work in close cooperation to solve problems that affect the Internet. For example, I worked with 25 of the largest Internet companies to develop a parent's protection page where parents can go to protect children from material that they think is inappropriate. In response to a spate of service disruptions earlier this year, President Clinton and I convened a meeting at the White House with leaders of the high-tech industry and experts on computer security to discuss how to maximize the promise and minimize the risks to the Internet.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.