Begging for Brains

摘要

Our job crisis is partly due to the advent of global software development and the dearth of immigrants. Is a flattened world squeezing the economic juice out of the U.S.? Many of you wrote to comment on my August column ("Decline and Fall?"), particularly concerning the cyclical nature of technical careers, and which areas one should focus on when training for these careers (see Feedback, page 11). Surprisingly, however, no one addressed Stevens Institute of Technology professor Larry Bernstein's assertions that the current job crisis is caused by the "advent of global software development" along with the "unwillingness of and difficulty for foreign students to come to the United States."