To: Mary Cluney who wrote (275883 ) 2/1/2004 2:36:14 PM From: Dr. Voodoo Read Replies (1) | Respond to Hi Mary,That is not really innovative work they are doing. It is still a long ways before they can even take over much of the innovative work that you find in our telemarketing personnel(I must get 4 or 5 calls each day). truly innovative work is not headed overseas. The cutting edge gets done here--no question about it. However, I tend to think that there is a finite amount of capital needed to fund rapid innovation and as opportunities arise, it may be more expensive for us to fund our current brain drain demand. I'm still kind of thinking on this one, but the growth in China in the last 10 years has been astonishing to say the least. I tend to think that they are right now on the cusp(certainly within 10 years) of having enough capital to generate enough innovation to feed their own economic engine. I think this may make for very rough sledding depending on where/when the next boom comes. My point here is not that people from India can't do this type of work. When they come here to the US, take advantage of our education system, they are very successful. India has nearly 1 billion people. My guess is that out of that less than 1/50th of 1 percent of their best educated are employed in the IT industry serving US corporations with help desk and computer programming type services.
