The time can be better spent doing our jobs and getting on with life.

Obviously we have concerns, particularly because of uncertainty about any impact on jobs.

We estimate that up to 25% of traditional IT jobs in many developed countries around the world will be situated in emerging markets by 2010. There is no doubt that the predicted shift in jobs associated with global sourcing is a harsh reality. However, there is nothing new about technology causing massive shifts in how and where people work. This is an unavoidable outcome of how the global marketplace operates today and Western economies have been successful in navigating successive waves of economic transformation in the past.

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

We tell the kids all the time: It's all about acts. This is a real life lesson. When you see misery, you can do something to make things better.

This qualitative aspect of growth is a huge issue here. Development spurs investment and creates jobs, but it also results in the loss of green space. That's an amenity many people moved here to enjoy. Assigning a value to it is difficult, though, because the numbers are so [subjective].