ABSTRACT
Just about every major component of society is finding it difficult to make computing "compute," a fact that helps put the uneven record here of Organized Labor in perspective. For example, 20 or more years after the first PCs arrived on campus, 60 percent of the nation's colleges and universities in 1998 still did not have a curriculum plan or a financial plan for their use, and 70 percent did not have a plan for using the Internet in their distance-learning initiatives (Green). Similarly, the Wall Street Journal reported in November, 1998, that "the Internet commerce boom is posing a tormenting challenge for many of America's biggest companies .... Anything different is a threat to their corporate culture---and next quarter's earnings" (Anders).
