colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (01/23/85)
[Remember, you read it on a computer.] > There is an excellent article on page 1 of today's, Monday, January 14, > 1985, New York Times with the above title. Reading it I cannot help > wondering if we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. By this I > mean that in a few years that there will be many unemployed Computer > Science majors who are at best mediocre programmers. A similar problem > has occurred in other fields such as Chemical Engineering. There will > always be room for the top people, but I cannot help but wonder if there > won't be a bust before 1990. > > How long do you think the current boom in Computer Science will last and > what will happen when it goes disappears? The boom in Computer Science is _permanent._ We should rather be thinking about what will happen when schools, banks, newspapers, and central government disappear. That's what computers are doing to society. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel