Offshore outsourcing is a very emotional topic. Just start talking about the jobs that are leaving and those that are coming and you can be sure that the discussion will get heated.
What often gets lost in the conversation is what's getting outsourced, where, and to whom...or perhaps more accurately - to what. According to Daniel Pink, author of the wonderful book, A Whole New Mind, once upon a time programmer jobs were plentiful. Of course, this is no longer the case as many of these jobs are outsourced, but not always to a human. According to Pink, a small British company called Appligenics has "created software that can write software." Re-read that sentence! He says that the average computer programmer can write about 400 lines of code per day. Well, the Appligenics applications can write 400 lines of code in less than a second! Whoa!
We know that automation is ushering in sweeping changes in many professions. I can only wonder just how advanced and "smart" our technology will become and what will happen when the technological advancements surpasses human intelligence. The future promises to be interesting.
