Elegy for a Profession A song of the discarded Hello, Corporate America. Do you know us? Do you remember? We are I/T. We are the men and women who helped you build the 21st century. We flocked to the new technologies, taught ourselves the skills we needed when colleges could not, and forged the tools you asked for. We signed up willingly, knowing that of all professions, ours was the one where today’s knowledge would be tomorrow’s obsolescence, where last week’s skill is worthless now, and where falling out of touch with progress is career suicide. And we knew, some...
