A NATION's ABILITY to fight a MODERN WAR is as good as its technological ability.

Light is one of the basic areas that will GIVE you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional LIGHTING to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming INTELLIGENT with the TRANSITION from analogue to digital.

We're LOSING touch with ourselves in the technological WORLD, and it is INCREASINGLY important to TAKE time out.

Technological CHANGE is essential, but to a natural historian it OFTEN FEELS COLD and distancing.

I'm the ninth CEO of IBM. Every one of my predecessors has steered through a technological shift, and every one left the company in a better POSITION than the person before them and prepared this company with a very strong balance sheet to allow it to continue to invest for the NEXT shift.

Mystery is GONE to the CERTAINTY of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the FORM of the PURSUIT of our technological HAPPINESS.

In classical OIL painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing THINGS as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I BEGAN to have a tremendous PROBLEM with all of this.

Internet entrepreneurs are USING technology at every level of their COMPANY - from a one-person agency to a SMALL FIRM, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every ASPECT of Internet-based businesses.

We CALL the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable EVENTS is what ENGINEERS are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later FORGOTTEN.

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.