Lately, the news is full of information about high tech developments in organ donation and transplantation.
On the success side, according to Denis Simon, co-author of "Technological Innovation in China", is the Loongson or Dragon chip, developed with money from the state's high-tech development plan.
Despite all this, it wouldn't make any sense to put the brakes on high-tech development.
But if high-tech development causes problems, and stopping it doesn't solve those problems, what comes next?
A farming village next to his residence was being demolished, to make way for a high-tech development zone to be called Future Science and Technology City.
Other strongholds of the new economy, including Menlo Park, San Carlos and San Mateo, have either enacted or plan to enact similar moratoriums on high-tech development.
Mrs. Clinton reiterated her call for tax credits for job creation, job training centers and grants to encourage high-tech development.
For years, economists and mayors believed that high-tech development would "lift all boats". The reality is a new phase of winner-take-all urbanism.
When those who have serious reservations about the latest high-tech development are marginalized and stigmatized, the juggernaut of ill-considered change can proceed unimpeded.
Chief among Mr. Paterson's goals is scrapping the scandal-plagued Empire Zone program of business tax breaks and replacing it with new one, called the Excelsior Jobs program, that would focus on high-tech development and so-called green jobs.
