I found the article rather sensationalistic, but one of the comments rings true with regard to globalization of knowledge work in general: "...you end up with

I found the article rather sensationalistic, but one of the comments rings true with regard to globalization of knowledge work in general: "...you end up with a barbell distribution – a bunch of those rare people who can work through systems they’ve never seen before and fix them at the top, and a bunch of people to act as interchangeable cogs at the bottom..." If you cannot quickly add value to systems & technologies you've never seen before, you're probably a depreciating commodity. IBM is merely riding this wave.