A librarian's choice of the best of the Web. UC Berkeley Summer Reading 2006. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyThomas L. FriedmanNew York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Although the message can be boiled down into fewer pages, a future President should understand that technology has created the opportunity for anyone in the world to perform tasks that used to be limited by geography.
It sounds good for the world; is it good for the U.S.? We are the leader in offshoring. Despite information technology being one of the popular targets, IT jobs and salaries have actually increased. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we have more jobs in IT than in the height of the dot.com boom and IT salaries have grown 8% annually as compared to an annual increase of 2% in the consumer price index. Dave PattersonPardee Professor of Computer Science The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan DidionNew York: Knopf, 2005 Charles FaulhaberProfessor, Spanish and PortugueseJames D. Life and FateVasilii Semenovich GrossmanNew York: Harper & Row, 1986, ©1985.
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