This Business Week article considers India’s extraordinary effort to run into the modern world, and what it has to do with us. Very informative. This is what happens to a country once the socialist barriers (or much of it, anyway) are lifted. "Quietly but with breathtaking speed, India and its millions of world-class engineering, business, and medical graduates are becoming enmeshed in America’s New Economy in ways most of us barely imagine. ’India has always had brilliant, educated people,’ says tech-trend forecaster Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif. ’Now Indians are taking the lead in colonizing cyberspace.’"