[quote]4) Establish good relations with a nation willing to export electronics, or gain a sufficient educated population base along with supplies of copper, rubber and rare earth elements to kickstart Bermudian technological industry.[/quote]

That's actually a really hard thing to do in this era, AFAIK. America isn't exactly prime rubber territory. (There's a reason so many nations were eager to get their slice of the Congo just before WW1.) Copper is very possible, and maybe certain earth elements...