Government, Regulations and jobs. What?
More and more there is a clamping down on regulations on the internet. We as internet users must be keen to identify red flags out in the horizon, flags that indicate the destruction of the internet. There are ideas out there in the US congress to make the internet free for everyone, this sounds like a great ideas at first, but when you take a closer look its really a disaster! When they say free this means free to logon and only view fortune 500 companies products. All other websites won’t be accessible unless you pay a fee! This will leave out small companies, average users and such and they will be left out to dry.
TV has lost 60% of its viewers; cable has lost 40% of its viewers. More and more people are finding that going on the internet and going to youtube.com, watching videos on demand without all the over abusive ads is a better alternative. Who likes to watch TV? Now more that ever you have more channels available to us but still there is nothing to watch! It’s all garbage TV. Why watch something that is scheduled when you can go online and download it and watch it when you want it and as many times as you want it.
The economy is shifting and its due in large part with the expansion on the internet. The jobs in the US are moving from manufacturing jobs to service based jobs. You hear a lot of Americans complaining on shows like CNN with Lou Dobbs about the war against the middle class. I think it’s more a war against the “manufacturing job positions” that were so prevalent and so important to creating the middle class of the past. The middle class simply has shifted to people who are more tech savvy and more educated. This is a sad reality for people who have not made that transition. The fact is these types of jobs are moving to other countries like china etc… and the service jobs and tech jobs are moving to more advance economies likes the US, UK, Former Russian satellite states and India.
The big challenge now is educating US future workers in these types of fields or these jobs will move to India and the like forever. India and other countries are currently being used to outsource these jobs not only because of the cost factor but also because the shortage of American workers those are available to fill these jobs. There are many things that US workers if educated for these jobs have more to offer than say Indian workers and that are quality and ingenuity.
Cnet Editor, common sense nowhere to be found?
First of all I would like to give my condolence to the family of James Kim. I can’t imagine the grief that they are going thru. I would like to mention how basic things could of saved him his life. For example it seems to me strange that editor of one of the most tech savvy websites on the internet did not have a phone with him, at least. But him being one of the editors of this website you would expect him to have a GPS system. Another thing that I find strange and confusing is the fact that he left the safety and protection of his car and instead chose to walk for miles while being exposed by the elements. Obviously its easy to suggest other scenarios from a distance not having been in that situation but still these things seem to me common sense things to consider.
