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Let’s peer in to our technological future and see what awaits us. Top experts recently gathered at Georgia Tech to do just that, and surmised we must embrace computational literacy if we are to comprehend devices that allow the blind to see and the deaf to hear. Today, a Tech dean writes about the new generation of computing and its effect on the fabric of our lives. Elsewhere, a business executive, citing a strategic advantage, talks of the value of keeping IT departments in-house rather than outsourcing.

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