Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Facebook are all software companies, and employ hundreds of thousands of American software engineers. Intel is trying hard to become a software company.
Tell Americans jocks to put down their wrenches and shovels, and toss away outdated visions of muscle-fueled manufacturing greatness. Ask them to sit in front of a keyboard and learn OOP and C++. The future is theirs.
Oh boy, here we go.
“Industrialization and low skilled manufacturing labor is an outdated concept.”
Guess no one ever told the Chinese that. When are boneheads ever going to realize that there are just some people who can’t do anything except dig ditches and tighten bolts on an assembly line?
Bjarne Stroustrup (inventor of C++) is an Aggie, BTW. To be fair to tu, they had another notable name on their roster. Yes, the late Edsger Dijkstra (goto is evil) was a teasip. :-)
lol thanks for the laugh. Let me guess. You are in the software biz?
C++ ? C++ ? It was eclipsed by Java, and Java is ancient history. It’s all apps now. Who programs? What do they program in? I don’t even know!
I mean, what was “Angry Birds” programmed in? Tell me it was C++ ! Ha, could be for all I know.
Not everybody should be a software engineer or an executive. We have a tremendous shortage of CNC operators, plumbers, electricians and other journeymen - - the schools could help if they would wake up to the need.
They don’t need to put down their wrenches and shovels, they need to turn off their TV.
I disagree.
(1) The currency of tomorrow ... like the currency of the Western Roman Empire in the sixth century ... is brute force.
(2) How many people work for YouTube, Facebook, Google, etc?
(3) There isn’t going to be a globalized economy 10 to 20 years from now. Just because globalization has been a fad since the demise of the USSR doesn’t mean it is something that will go on forever.
(4) Yes, these companies have hired plenty of foreigners and lobby Congress to bring in ever more foreigners. So what?
(5) This problem will correct itself within the next twenty years ... the zero sum economy, the post-growth economy, the brute force world ... which we recently saw on display in Britain.
Tell Americans jocks to put down their wrenches and shovels, and toss away outdated visions of muscle-fueled manufacturing greatness. Ask them to sit in front of a keyboard and learn OOP and C++. The future is theirs.
Software writing and verification is actually the easiest to outsource to foreign countries. All it takes is a high speed data line.
I worked with US CAD companies that wrote and checked code on a 24 hour basis. Three separate teams working in three time zones - US West coast - France - India. The code modules just kept getting passed around the world according to daylight working hours.
The higher level design concepts may be US, but the actual bodies/workers writing the code can easily be world-wide.
Corporations get a cost benefit with lower foreign wages as well as a time-to-market benefit.
Not everyone can learn OOPs, C++, Ruby on Rails, PLSQL, etc. — it requires a different skillset, heavily logical mindset. Most are not built for that.
You forgot to add - Learn Farsi or Hindi or Mandarin, as that is what your co-workers will speak.