Moogie
10-11-2003, 06:45 PM
The article can be found <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/33339.html"> HERE. </a><br><br>A little bit of analysis from my point of view:<br> <br>The prevailing "wisdom" in the US, Canada, the UK, and parts of Europe has always been "we invent it and refine it, and we do it better than those benighted heathens in the Far East". What was overlooked was:<br> <br>1. The Far East may have political issues (such as the PRC has), or a struggling economy (India comes to mind), but these folks are NOT stupid. Give 'em just a hint of an idea, and they'll run with it.<br> <br>2. The effect of the World Wide Web. Fiber-optic cable laid across the Pacific links the US/Canada combined with Japan/Korea/India/China just as easily as from SF to LA. The result is that info flows back and forth quite easily. And technologists can get info/send info across national and natural barriers very easily. And for now, the prevailing wage in India is MUCH lower than it is here for technologists.<br> <br>Of course, while this appears to have happened over-night, a look at industrial history might have given us a pretty good idea of what would happen. Steel, automobiles, televisions, VCRs, electronics. All have flowed out of the US, and are currently national industries in Japan, India, Korea, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Of that little list, only automobiles can be said to be a major player in this country at this time.<br><br>Just my $.02.<br><br>