Info Tech

Another week, another conference (in Boston) about the offshoring crisis in IT and what to do about it. The interesting nuance to this one is the admonition to IT professionals to invest in training whether they are unemployed or employed and to be ready to shift careers. So the admonitions that started a couple of decades ago about “lifelong learning” ...

“The market is booming. I can pick and choose a firm of my choice.” Who said the above? A. A 28-year-old American, latte-sipping engineer in Palo Alto in October 1999. B. A 28-year-old Indian, tea-sipping engineer in Bangalore in October 2003. For the answer, click here.

Okay, so Kurzweil’s “singularity” is hard to swallow. But even without big breakthroughs in nanotech and AI, it seems to me current technology pushed to new levels is going to change things a lot. For example, here’s links to articles that have appeared quite recently that point toward the availability in the pretty-near future of a kind of total personal ...

Boston.com / News / Nation / Keeping patients connected The VA is starting a test to monitor chronically ill patients with telemedicine. It’s no joke; they’ll have 25,000 plugged in. The VA program, which is being rolled out over the next few months, will offer telephone- and computer-based technology to patients, ranging from automated medication reminders and hand-held vital sign ...