Whether it was thanks to the presidential audience his report received or to the appealing allure of his call to "set up Taiwan as a high-tech island and make it the fourth largest computer manufacturing country in the world," the phrases "high-tech island" and "Silicon Island" were soon bandied about in the media, and the ideas have caught the fancy of government officials as well as industry manufacturers.
或許是沾了「向李總統報告」的光，或許是「把台灣建設成科技島」、「台灣將成世界第四大資訊國」的訊息吸引人，「科技島」、「矽島」之名，第二天就在各媒體沸騰騰地流傳開來，不但同業響應，政府官員似乎也認同了這個說法。