Gunning For The U.S. In Technology

Business Week ^ | March 16, 2004 | Alex Salkever

[MikeJ75]

Once the undisputed leader, America is now under assault from countries worldwide. How did this happen, and will the U.S. be able to fight back?

In the history of the U.S. technology industry, 2004 will be remembered as the year that outsourcing hit home. Consultancy Gartner Group figures that U.S. tech companies will send 500,000 jobs overseas this year -- and indeed, hardly a week goes by without a major U.S. tech outfit announcing a new R&D center in Asia. As outsourcing has begun to hit high-salary jobs in programming and tech services, the trend is giving rise to a wider fear -- that U.S. dominance in high tech is starting to wane.

[the OlLine Rebel]

*sigh*

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell.html

[SolutionsOnly]

That we might be losing our edge in technology should come as no surprise. For decades, our universities have been full of foreign students in math, engineering, and sciences while American kids increasingly gravitate towards business, law, liberal arts, and fashion design curriculums. duh.

[TUX]

We have sown the wind with our leaking tech and R&D, much of it stolen for free.

Now are surprised by the whirlwind.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not to mention the fact that 100 years ago a 12yo knew more generally and could handle math better than a 20yo today. Thanks, liberal education!

[CasearianDaoist]

It could still be turned around if we focused on it. Also they are really wrong about facilities, Bush has great programs going on. As for underfunded universities, look at tution cost and the bang for the buck. Our "professoriate" is getting lazy and too much money is going into "victimology" Departments. We actually spend in federal dollars more than the other 41 top nations combined and roughly half of that goes into military spending. The "military spending " bit is a bit of an illusion anyway. We got the internet from "military spending."

Also that business of EU scientists publishing more varies from year to year and wone needs to count the level of citings not the level of publishing as many articles are really hog wash.

There is no camparision between EU S&T spending and ours and that applies to university spending as well.

What we nned to do is free up monies from entitlement programs so that we can spend more on this stuff and keep personal taxes down and personal freedoms up so that people want to come here and do science.