An unemployed man is desperate to support his family. He applies for a job as a janitor at a large firm and easily passes a test. The human resources manager tells him, (1) "You will be hired at a minimum wage of $5.15 an hour, Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop.

Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to Start and where to report on your first day."

Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm.

Good day. "

Astonished, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate of the tomatoes, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than two hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes a 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.

He gets up early every day and works into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.

By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard. Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse, plus two tomato farms.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no email address, the insurance man is astonished, "What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"

"Ha!" snorts the man.If l'a had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5. 15 an hour."