"The biggest change in the next decade will be the restructuring of work itself, a new revolutionary wave is unfolding,"
In this new type of economy, strategic resources will no longer be earthbound resources such as oil, wheat, and coal.
Instead, it will be the ideas and information produced in our minds, which will become the most prominent battlegrounds in future competition."
These were Dean's words to the gathered experts at the Little Rock Economic Summit.
Although he didn't mention Silicon Valley once in his speech, everything at its core was closely related to Silicon Valley.
As one of the representatives of Silicon Valley at the conference, he had to consider the collective interests of Silicon Valley.
Dean knew very well that they, hailing from the West Coast, could only make their voices heard as a united entity under Clinton's new administration.
It would have been too shortsighted to seek benefits solely for Byte Company at a time like this.