Business

Success breeds success

Two top-performing scholars are setting themselves up as examples of how to crack top marks in the classroom – and turning it into a business.

04 May 2003

One of the interesting things about getting older is that you sometimes become aware you`re living in the future. You live to see the prophecies of yesteryear either coming to fruition, or fading away, along with the soothsaying credibility of their creators. One of the promises of the Information Age is that technology can be empowering for individuals, giving them advantages they would not otherwise have. Remember the nineties? That decade of heady optimism when the Internet brought us a challenging new frontier – cyberspace, a virtual realm limited only by the boundaries of our imaginations, where information cascades in ever widening streams and where we find a never-ending wellspring of knowledge about the world around us.

The veracity of this is brought home when you meet two 20-year-old South Africans who have developed an idea that is an expression of such theories.

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