I originally wrote this as commentary to an article from last year, regarding the so called IT labor shortage. I transcribe the article in its entirety for discussion here. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2111347,00.asp I agree with a comment made in one of the talkback posts, there is no IT labor shortage (well not yet a real one is anticipated in the next few years), only a shortage of cheap IT labor. However there is a dual statement that can be made that I feel is also necessarily true, namely that US IT workers will need to differentiate their knowledge above and beyond the "cookie cutter" knowledge that is provided to recently graduated IT workers to improve their value relative to the foreign workers and command higher salaries while receiving first dibs on the available jobs. This additional knowledge provides value above what is otherwise comparable knowledge coming from the same cookie cutter IT workers graduating from the best Chinese and Indian universities....
A chronicle of the things I find interesting or deeply important. Exploring generally 4 pillars of intense research. Dynamic Cognition (what every one else calls AI), Self Healing Infrastructures (how to build technological Utopia), Autonomous work routing and Action Oriented Workflow (sending work to the worker) and Supermortality (how to live...to arbitrarily long life spans by ending the disease of aging to death.)