Look at state govt employees in the US. A major portion of this labor force is involved in managing data. Even if you take just the "knowledge workers", the num

Look at state govt employees in the US. A major portion of this labor force is involved in managing data. Even if you take just the "knowledge workers", the number still would be in the hundreds of thousands range. Not counting outsourcing. Facebook manages the data of 1 billion people, spanning some 200 countries with 5000 employees. No great AI involved. Glad you bought up enterprise, most of those programmers now come from Indian IT companies. The only sector still employing american programmers is defence. Now if you are right and all those hospitals, pharma companies, insurance companies, banks etc require more and more features to be built for their customers then why do we see this http://www.indianexpress.com/news/its-time-to-move-on-as-tech-cos-put-brakes-on-hiring/1105812/ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/its-time-to-move-on-as-tec... Why do we see Infosys tanking after almost a decade of being a darling of the stock market. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-22/infosys-investors-balk-as-ceo-says-worst-over-corporate-india.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-22/infosys-investors-b... Of course its all not happening overnight, there are some legacy systems that are still too expensive to replace but it is happening.