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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Flock to Computer Science
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 11:47:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 11:47:45 1985
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[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
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