Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Bangalore
http://wirednews.com/wired/archive/4.02/bangalore.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
Bangalore:
"Over the last quarter century, as hundreds of corporations have moved in to take advantage of Bangalore's temperate and dust-free climate, cheap housing, and work force educated in information technology (or IT, the popular shorthand here), economic growth has bred a new set of woes. In that time, the city has quadrupled in size, real estate prices have quintupled, and a once gracious metropolis has begun to choke on its own pollution and gridlock."
--Richard Rapaport
The article details--with intricacy--one man's journey through the streets of a bustling Bangalore, India in his exploration of the high-tech revolution that is taking place. With the influx of major corporations to the city, due mostly to the underpaid--by American standards--and newly educated workforce that is driving the creation of infrastructure and commecial enterprize there, Rapaport leaves the reader in question as to whether this dramatic change in the city's social structuring can sustain well into this decade.
The article could have also been entitled "Outsourcing--Bangalore", and Rapaport goes into extreme detail that might not have been necessary in conveying his point, whatever that point really was...
From my understanding, the point of the article was to convey to the reader that America is now in competition with places such as Bangalore that are experiencing a hightech revolution unseen before, and unless the US can adjust to the outsourcing of high-tech labor to places like Bangalore, our nation will not be able to compete in the global technology market.
Perhaps our labor wages are too high, along with our expectations from employers. But articles such as are evidence suggestive that the US has already experienced its greatest moment in the climax of our technological achievements. Unless there becomes a reason for corporations to set up shop here in America, it seems likely that we will continue to lose our status as the innovative country that we once were in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the Space Race, and the beginnings of the Internet.
Bangalore:
"Over the last quarter century, as hundreds of corporations have moved in to take advantage of Bangalore's temperate and dust-free climate, cheap housing, and work force educated in information technology (or IT, the popular shorthand here), economic growth has bred a new set of woes. In that time, the city has quadrupled in size, real estate prices have quintupled, and a once gracious metropolis has begun to choke on its own pollution and gridlock."
--Richard Rapaport
The article details--with intricacy--one man's journey through the streets of a bustling Bangalore, India in his exploration of the high-tech revolution that is taking place. With the influx of major corporations to the city, due mostly to the underpaid--by American standards--and newly educated workforce that is driving the creation of infrastructure and commecial enterprize there, Rapaport leaves the reader in question as to whether this dramatic change in the city's social structuring can sustain well into this decade.
The article could have also been entitled "Outsourcing--Bangalore", and Rapaport goes into extreme detail that might not have been necessary in conveying his point, whatever that point really was...
From my understanding, the point of the article was to convey to the reader that America is now in competition with places such as Bangalore that are experiencing a hightech revolution unseen before, and unless the US can adjust to the outsourcing of high-tech labor to places like Bangalore, our nation will not be able to compete in the global technology market.
Perhaps our labor wages are too high, along with our expectations from employers. But articles such as are evidence suggestive that the US has already experienced its greatest moment in the climax of our technological achievements. Unless there becomes a reason for corporations to set up shop here in America, it seems likely that we will continue to lose our status as the innovative country that we once were in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the Space Race, and the beginnings of the Internet.
