Although it has dabbled in technology, the party largely missed out on the high-tech boom of the last decade.
Economic growth doesn't have to cause a disaster if the same ingenuity that fostered the high-tech boom is applied to energy production.
During the high-tech boom, several major corporations moved their headquarters to the region.
Peter Day returns to India 16 years after his first visit to cover the high-tech boom.
There has never been a high-tech boom here, local officials say, nor much tourism.
In China, the logic that emerges may allow for a high-tech boom without seriously undermining the government's political control.
And it could be reflected in the company's share price, which has already plummeted by nearly half, from $68 to $34, since the high-tech boom cooled.
It was, perhaps, inevitable that the high-tech boom would initiate a longing for Old West living.
As a result, manufacturing vanished, and Southborough did not see substantial growth until the high-tech boom of the 1970s.
A high-tech boom in the state has lowered unemployment to 3.7 percent from levels of 10 percent seven years ago.