[svachalek]

This sort of thing has happened before, with the "fog a mirror" interviews of 1999 and all the offshoring that happened a few years later. In the first case people all thought there was plenty of room in the "new economy" but our jobs would all be dumbed down permanently, in the latter there was a lot of doom and gloom about how software development was no sort of future for first-world children.

But in both cases, the results were brutal to the companies that jumped in thoughtlessly. I've no doubt the same is true here again. Over the long term I expect we'll see some big changes in career education but I don't think established professionals are going to be overrun with high school dropouts anytime soon.

[mberning]

Probably not, but as you mention, for some the implications can be dire.