Robotic Nation Evidence

Lots of companies are outsourcing to India. Here's an example of the process:

AOL sets up software center in India

From the article:

AOL, based in Dulles, Virginia, has set up a software development center in the southern Indian metropolis of Bangalore, hiring about a dozen people for now, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Many other positions have been advertised in local newspapers.

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AOL follows competitors Yahoo! and Google, who also have set up operations in Bangalore to develop software that runs various online services.

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A shift to India could help American corporations save up to 80 percent in wages and operating costs. Scores of companies have fired U.S. employees to hire in India.

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AOL laid off 450 software developers in California in December and closed two offices in the state.

The employment landscape for U.S. programmers has changed dramatically. This process is not happening over the course of a centrury, as it did with agricultual automation and factory automation. Instead it has happened in just a few years.

There is no stopping the offshoring process, and it will not stop at IT. Accounting, tax preparation, financial analysis, reporting, writing, film making, customer service, billing/payroll, editing, illustration, engineering, design, manufacturing, etc., etc. -- millions of jobs across a wide spectrum of white-collar and blue-collar activities -- can all move off-shore to some degree. And they will.

As mentioned in Robotic Nation:

We are seeing the tip of the iceberg right now, because robotic replacement of human workers in every employment sector is about to accelerate rapidly. Combine that with a powerful trend pushing high-paying IT jobs to India. Combine it with the rapid loss of call-center jobs to India. When the first wave of robots and offshore production cut in to the factory workforce in the 20th century, the slack was picked up by service sector jobs. Now we are about to see the combined loss of massive numbers of service-sector jobs, most of the remaining jobs in factories, and many white collar jobs, all at the same time.

See Robotic Nation for details.