Rubbish! This does not imply that we have to move our high tech jobs over to India. One of these days we are going to have to embrace the fact that the global integration of economy will destroy this nation. When we lose our technical edge do you think that people like India will "help us out." Powell is not doing his job, he is suppose to represent American citizens, not Indian ones.
Our forefathers never would have stood for this. The elites in this country will destroy in a generation what it took 13 to build up.
The Indians are laughing as they import more American careers, they are laughing at Powell and they are laughing at us.
Powell has it backwards. Economic policy is tool for national security, not a doormat. It is embarassing to see him overthere kowtowing to a third world country that opposed us throughout the Cold War and that even now is developing high tech weoponry with Russia.
The current administration does not have enough people in it that understand high tech economies.
Look, Indians suck at actual computer design work. They are good coders but stink at being able to solve solutions long-term. For example, if the spec calls for an account code to be an "asset" then they will ask "how can I tell what is an asset?" The client says "it is account codes between 10000-11000" and the Indian codes "IF ACCOUNT BETWEEN 10000-11000 then..."
Americans, OTOH, ask "will this be true forever? What if "11001" is used by some future CIO? Then we follow with "let's tag the account as a type, then check for the type." This solution does not occur to the Indians (or Chinese)
I am already seeing clients who have been burned by this mentality and who won't even let us put a coder in project who has an Indian accent. Mark my words, in 5 years or less, Indian Offshoring will be considered the worst thing that ever happened to software design and coding. The smarter companies are seeing this right now.