The software gap has also brought renewed interest in an old vision, that of making everyone a programmer.

He blinked, as if to clear away old visions, then said, "Tell me.

"What they need, what teachers and parents need, is a whole new picture to replace the old vision of being average."

"I knew it had to be a great race because I didn't see anybody, the old peripheral vision," he recalled recently.

What will make this book controversial, however, is an old vision of blacks as their own worst enemies.

That made this mixture even more atypical of the old visions.

In just two generations, the use of trade and productivity has brought the old vision within reach.

But these days, even Government officials acknowledge that the old visions of recovering the mainland are mostly dreams.

Why did the old vision of so many separate states in South Africa fail?

This served as a "place where the older vision was kept alive."