PFF Aspen Summit Begins
August 19, 2007
| 11:46 PM
ASPEN -- Ambassador David Gross of the State Department opened the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit Sunday evening as those attending adjusted to the altitude and the wine, with the later not helping much.
Gross said there is no doubt people still look to the United States for intellectual leadership. He cited the tremendous growth of the communications industry. He said the number of Internet subscriptions has increased four times in just the last six yuears to 1.2 billion subscribers. Gross added that cell phone users have grown from 600 million in 2001 to 3 billion this year.
"What does this mean?" Gross asked. "The world is changing and changing in our direction."
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