Talk:Lecture 9

Looking back at the second part of lecture on outsourcing, there is a series of graphs showing how rates of employment in the IT industry have gone up and down over the past few years. In the most recent years, there has been a lot of jobs lost in the IT industry folloing a period in the late 90's and early 2000's where there was a really high degree of growth in the industry. Looking at the breakdown of how specific job functions changed over time, it appears as if outsourcing could have had a strong impact because those fuunctions are easily outsourced. So it seems like all those programers could have lost their jobs to outsourcing, but i wonder how big of an impact the high degree of enthusiasm and fast growth in tech industry had on that. Does anyone have any idea?