A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything and that's what's new about television and film these days.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

With a fourth generation of nuclear power you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

We can do it better more consistently and in the end it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Therefore you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of or will not admit to which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15 recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.