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Every generation does have this fear. I was sure outsourcing would seriously damage Silicon Valley…in 1990.
by kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
Every generation does have this fear. I was sure outsourcing would seriously damage Silicon Valley…in 1990.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoOutsourcing did damage silicon valley. Do you see Apple still building Macs there? Or any chips being built there anymore? Silicon valley wasn't always the land of ad-based companies you know, it was silicon. That's mostly offshored now with the current version being a shadow of its former self. Do you think all those employees building Macs and chips managed to get into SW development before their jobs were offshored?
- nebula8804 5y agoAs a child of the 90s, my views are quite skewed but it seems like such a different era. It was the era of "Hackers' and the Matrix. When you could actually afford some decent property in the valley still. When it wasn't a complete homeless dump(or at least as much as it is now). Every computer you bought was seriously much better than the last. But yeah, my late father did have the concern of outsourcing to India in the mid 2000s. That was back when it was thought that India was the next superpower before China just raced past them. I am reminded by this presentation I saw(and was shown to teachers all around the country) in the early to mid 2000s.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTOFkhaplo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTOFkhaplo Its crazy just thinking back to those times.