Over a long PERIOD of TIME, technological change is something that has been IMPORTANT in reducing manufacturing EMPLOYMENT - absolutely and as a SHARE of jobs in the economy.

What has TRULY impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN LOST to Deadspin, a snarky, POLITICALLY progressive SPORTS blog launched by Gawker's NICK Denton in 2005.

I am EXCITED about focusing full-time on TALKING about my job-creation agenda and building a NEW economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions RIGHT here at home.

We LIVE in a WORLD DEFINED by the rapid PACE of technological CHANGE.

When I speak at my local CHURCH, which I TRY to do 35 to 40 times a YEAR, I try in every LESSON to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is HAPPENING to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Technological THINGS, that Germans and JAPANESE WOULD get real EXCITED about.

I HATE the technological rip-offs that pass for MUSIC formats these days, and go BACK to vinyl to HEAR a good record because the sound is always so MUCH fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.