Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop.

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.