Comments on: More on the future of IT Professionals http://dcfischer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/07/26/more-on-the-future-of-it-professionals/ Notes from the former CIO of Plymouth State University Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:06:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim http://dcfischer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/07/26/more-on-the-future-of-it-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-23501 Jim Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:15:17 +0000 http://dcfischer.blogs.plymouth.edu/2006/07/26/more-on-the-future-of-it-professionals/#comment-23501 Anyone interested in the future of IT in the USA should read Paul Craig Roberts's article: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09302006.html It is an antidote to the kool-aid that pours out from people like Tom Friedmann and that Dwight has bought into. And if you don't believe what Roberts writes, then I have just one question for you: where are those good middle-class jobs going to come from in the millions needed? Remember, the USA hits 300 million people this month and is projected to add another 120 million in just the next 44 years. The message given out by the drinkers of the kool-aid ignores that and says: work real hard, accumulate a lot of debt in your continuous schooling, and you might be one of the lucky ones who has a good job in the future. At least until you can be replaced by someone cheaper, somewhere in the world. Anyone interested in the future of IT in the USA should read Paul Craig Roberts’s article:

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09302006.html

It is an antidote to the kool-aid that pours out from people like Tom Friedmann and that Dwight has bought into.

And if you don’t believe what Roberts writes, then I have just one question for you: where are those good middle-class jobs going to come from in the millions needed? Remember, the USA hits 300 million people this month and is projected to add another 120 million in just the next 44 years. The message given out by the drinkers of the kool-aid ignores that and says: work real hard, accumulate a lot of debt in your continuous schooling, and you might be one of the lucky ones who has a good job in the future. At least until you can be replaced by someone cheaper, somewhere in the world.

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