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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (34920)	2/15/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: jach	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

<<The market competitiveness of everything from toasters to medical devices is predicated on the quality of the trillions of lines of codes jammed out by programmers, the assembly-line workers of the 21st century. Programmers are increasingly responsible for our quality of life: they make sure our financial transactions, cars, planes, security systems, and medical procedures function properly. But 69 percent of companies surveyed say that "few" or "some" applicants for information technology jobs possess the skills required. And 68% cite a lack of skilled or trained workers as a barrier to future growth, according to a study by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Information Technology Association of America, an industry trade group.>> once the intelligence of the zillions of code reaches the threshold of thinking like us, that'll be the day to declare that true labor shortage is now history -