There's a concern that if this direction doesn't vary significantly, it becomes pointless to go into computer science with a view to software development, database design or any other specialty surrounding the software area. As the older specialists die off, they're not replaced with American specialists.
While this may make operating systems and applications inexpensive in the sort run, it'll athropy the software capability of America and make us dependent on foreign skills.
If the computer products continue to hold the importance in our civilization as they do now, and we lose or seriously diminsh the domestic skills to make them ourselves, we can lose control over our national security and even our way of life.
I think it's wise to maintain selfsufficiency in certain core industries and their skills unless we can successfully encourage every nation in the world to love us and wish us only good fortune forever. 