Good point. As usual, the poets get there first: Caryl Churchill described the '80s version, English division, *in verse* in her play "Serious Money" a dozen years ago.
--C. G. Estabrook
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Barry Rene DeCicco wrote:
> Read some of the stuff at this link:
>
> http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.html
>
> A good summary of his results (put into a NYT Op-Ed column) is at:
>
> http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/ImmigAndComputerIndustry/NYT.html
>
> In short, the IT industry wants to hire 22-year-olds out of the top 30
> programs, work them 80-100 hours per week until they're 30, and then
> dump them for a fresh set of 20-year-olds.
>
> As for any articles about a shortage of Ph.D.'s in general, I remember
> reading the forecasts of such shortages back in 1988. They were wrong
> then; I've seen nothing in the last 12 years to say that the situation
> has gotten better for new Ph.D's.