"Yet more to the point, encouraging numbers or not, the technology sector is unlikely to lead the economy out of the recession. More likely, it is the economy,

"Yet more to the point, encouraging numbers or not, the technology sector is unlikely to lead the economy out of the recession. More likely, it is the economy, supported by cheap money and stimulus programmes, that is pushing IT." This is not supported at all in the article, imho. Isn't growing technology always driving economic growth from agriculture to plastics to computers?