[TigerLikesRooster]

What may happen eventually is to eliminate lots of them by downsizing and attrition and their jobs will be taken over by ‘big data’ machines. Tech giants in Silicon Valley are salivating about this opportunity.

[ClearCase_guy]

Absolutely. There is a lot of talk about that. One of the stumbling blocks is culture — Silicon Valley and Washington DC are utterly different in their approach to anything — which is sort of the point. This makes some of the progress slow. But the smart people in Washington realize that they need to do things differently.