It gets more irritating when both you and the enemy are scrambling for the knife that got knocked out of your hand when you were hit.

"It breaks my heart, " another teenage boy tells me, "to see my classmates compete against each other instead of helping each other."

Our children will compete for jobs in a global economy that too many of our schools do not prepare them for.

Whether we end up fighting one another or whether we work together to confront common threats—our fate, our common wealth, is in our hands.

Many other firms are also jostling to become the main interpreter of corporate data.