Is Web 2.0 A Bigger Threat Than Outsourcing?

An anonymous reader writes "According to InformationWeek, Web 2.0 is even worse than outsourcing for IT jobs. The article talks about corporations that have laid off IT staff and replaced them with technologies like mashups and wikis that can help people get things done without involving IT. Most IT people still think Web 2.0 is an overhyped buzzword, but that might not matter: So many Web 2.0 apps are sold (or given away for free) by software-as-a-service companies like Google that people can bypass IT altogether, and IT might not even know until it's too late."

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[DaedalusHKX]

People, especially geeks, are once again going to be whipped into a fervor, and once again they'll get their asses handing to them after ineffectively bitching to government to "regulate", or "control" or somehow subdue their competition. This is what happens when you're a ONE TRICK PONY!

If you want to continue participating in "production" of wealth, you can, just not necessarily by price fighting in the IT quadrant, in fact, USE the wikis yourself and cut your labor to where you can produce other things FOR YOURSELF... (yes, to those socialytes (not necessarily socialists, mind you) who can't *get it*, I'm talking about self sufficiency or even MILD self sufficiency).

All the so called "progressives" and "liberals" talk about having a lighter foot print, but what do they do? Hit MacDonalds (or, enter favorite burger joint) at the end of the day, eat like a total pig, and then hit the sack, and a month later bitch that they were fed fatty foods, cooked in some oil they disapprove of, and charged too much!!

What do they do about it? Either nothing, or they ask big monolithical government to step in and crush the business in question, instead of learning how to cook a nice quiet meal or maybe even hold a "fast" and clear some of that cholesterol out of those hardened arteries at 20 years of age. (Which for those sexually challenged geeks, know that being able to set up the entire process of "dinner" is also a remarkable aphrodisiac for quite a few women, and it isn't just the candle light. A self assured man that is confident AND competent in many things (the DaVincian principle of "uomo universalis") is a lot more interesting than a neurotic freak who is a one trick pony.)

The only logical choice would've been to stop patronizing that business, THEN get upset and complain, and then proceed to develop one's own alternative. That is, however, your choice.

My comment brings me to this. You people will bitch about the wikis, and about the Indians, and now the Romanians and Ukrainians as being "job stealers". In the end, what have you done to stop it, or to mitigate the change?

This is a world ruled by the laws of nature, regardless of how you see your relationship to those rules, manipulator or slave or passer-by, you are still charged with MITIGATING the constant state of change that the world is in... asking others to do it FOR you, presents us with only one concept. Intellectual laziness.