The Rise of the Creative Class

As I walked across the campus of
Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon
University one delightful spring day, I
came upon a table filled with young
people chatting and enjoying the
spectacular weather. Several had
identical blue T-shirts with
"Trilogy@CMU" written across
them---Trilogy being an Austin, Texas-based software company with a reputation for
recruiting our top students. I walked over to the table. "Are you guys here to recruit?" I
asked. "No, absolutely not," they replied adamantly. "We're not recruiters. We're just
hangin' out, playing a little Frisbee with our friends." How interesting, I thought. They've
come to cam