A view larger procession of foreign business luminaries visited Australia last year (curiously, those who came extolling the virtues of the virtual economy still found old-fashioned enjoyment in watching the Olympics in the flesh) to promote their companies, advising us to ignore our comparative advantage by following their example.
We argued that the application of the new technology was where the productivity benefits would lie, and that Australia was on the forefront in exploiting these - and we had the runs on the board to prove it. But this was lost in the paeans of praise and thunderous applause for the stars of the cyberworld.