Okay, that may be an overstatement.  But if you live in Hawaii, this little book may be the most important book you read about Hawaii for a long time to come.

Hawaii's economy is at a turning point.  The plantations are breathing their last.  In the age of free trade, Hawaiian agriculture has to compete with agricultural sites around the world, and that is a losing proposition.  Tourism is back from the dead -- for now --, but the tourism business has not grown at all, in real dollar terms, for a decade.  To grow at more than the rate of inflation would require that tourism become an even greater incursion on the lives of people living in Hawaii than it is today.  It would also make the state's economy even more dependent on a very fickle industry than it is today.

Hawaii needs a new economy.  Fortunately, the state has the opportunity to create a new economy, based on advanced, environmentally-friendly  technologies.  Technology has been the principal engine of economic growth for over a century, and at this time great waves of new technology are beginning to break.  Countries all over the world, and most of Hawaii's sister states, are attempting to catch those waves.  Some are succeeding dramatically, others are still sitting on the sand.  Fifteen years ago, Hawaii set in place a strategic plan to create a high-tech economic sector.  Today, there are only modest successes to show for that plan and the plans that have come since.

Blue Wave Millennium describes why it's in the interest of all Hawaiians for the state to move in a big way now to become a center of high-tech and biotech research-based business, and what needs to be done to succeed in that effort.  To succeed, the effort has to have strong public support and participation, and Blue Wave Millennium is written in a clear, easy-to-read fashion in order to help gather that support.

Three decades of experience, three years of research and over a year of writing and editing the text down to its pure, no-fat, no-frills essence have gone into creating this book.  If you live in Hawaii, you must read it.