This worries me tremendously.

My employer cut its IT/CS program this year due to decreasing enrollment.

Banks, Accounting firms, Security firms, and Credit Card companies are also outsourcing.

I think its undermining not only the current and future growth of intellectual capital, but perhaps our national security.

I am extremely worried about it.

Acidus wrote:
] As I watch the "real world" outside of college, I get more and
] more concerned. In the 70s and 80s, it was factory and other
] blue collar jobs that were being outsourced, crippling towns
] like Flint MI. Today its High Tech jobs going over seas to
] India. So what do we have left? What is one thing America
] really does well? Innovate. We have our intellectual capital
] left: our inventors and engineers. The only problem is we are
] destroying that industry as well. The DMCA, the Economic
] Espionage Act, and other laws are forcing a current generation
] to stop being curious. Take any examples you want: playfair,
] decss, Diebold voting. SDMI showed us universities are not
] completely safe either. We are selling our next generation of
] inventors and engineers short. How do we create the new
] inventions of tomorrow without understanding the inventions of
] today? We are bankrupting our long term future to protect the
] short term profits of bloated companies. This will cost us
] jobs. Not because the Japanese make it smaller or better, not
] because the Indians or Chinese can do it cheaper or faster,
] but because we are passing laws to feed greed.

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