Why specifically is Intel concerned with improving education or helping eliminate poverty?
It’s not necessarily something that will help grow revenue. Barrett: There are several reasons. One is we have been involved in education for decades, supporting education and teacher training in math and science for a long time with programs, such as the National Talent Search. For years we’ve been trying to promote math and science. And there are two reasons for that. One is it’s a philanthropic effort. So we’re giving something back. But it also helps our business. Our employees must be math and science literate. And if you look at the greater picture there are about a billion users of the Internet out there. So that is a billion potential Intel users who will need to be computer and Internet literate as well. There’s always some relationship back to the business, but it’s in parallel to our main philanthropic activity to improve education. Do you think large corporations, in particular technology companies, have a responsibility to give back? Barrett: I don’t think the question sho
