Back in college I “dated” this really weird gal, who would open up and say alarming thing to me when she was a little buzzed. “Alcohol is a truth serum,” she said. I nodded and responded, “Cool, well, I gotta go now.”
I guess the point is it takes booze to utter less-that-appropriate truths. This is true in all aspects of our society, of course; if all of us really said what was on our mind, we’d be quite unpopular and under-employed.
Well, there’s something similar at work in the cloud computing hoopla. Since cloud computing is glorified outsourcing – a bad word in many parts – many people are unwilling to go that extra step and state the obvious: that cloud computing can trigger the mass extiction of US-based jobs. It will make the India-centric outsourcing boom of the late 90s/early 00s look like kindergarden. If, of course, the hype is true.
Well, quasi-kudos to this guy from Unisys. He spoke the almost-unspeakable. Words that make your networking pal in Palo Alto shudder in terror and make some manufacturing CEO quiver in delight. IT workers can’t unionzie, right?
