[Lou L]

And what makes you think if he was alive he would not do just that? Bad analogy.

Why a bad analogy? Don't lose sight of my original point. Cutting-edge business or industry knowledge cannot be outsourced; code development--once that knowledge is translated, can be. I'm merely suggesting that Einstein could not have outsourced knowledge that was his alone. As I understand his theories--few others on earth could've written specifications on relativity without explicit knowledge transfer from Einstein himself.

[reagandemo]

And I agree with you in "cutting edge" technology. Writing software is not what I would consider cutting edge. It has been reduced to a commodity. I think what we are seeing is the traditional models of how your education and life work experience should be and have been are changing just as the old statement that once you were employed by a company that is where you would retire. IBM, Xerox, Kodak, 3M, they were all known for that. Now days you are nothing more than a tool for profits. Nothing more, nothing less. When your usefulness is gone or a cheaper solution arises to with be only a short memory.