The World is Flat

Cool book

Am I the first guy here? How come no one is here?

I read the other World is Flat, and it scares the hell out of me. :)
http://www.bookjetty.com/books/0374292795/

whoa..why does that book scare you, herry? reading the description doesn't give me any indication..

It seriously open my eyes to the world of outsourcing especially in India and China.

How hungry they are, and what is at stage now, how small little thing from restaurant booking can be outsourced to India. With the Internet and etc..the world is flat, we all are competing for the same resouce.

It freaks me out in one way if we just ignore about it, in 5 years time, we may just worth so much and probably end up flipping burger. I experienced this some years ago when I was a Java programmer, taking things for granted for some years, suddenly anyone seems to know Java, and considering the demand and supply curve, when everybody knows what you know, that's when what you know doesn't seem to value so much anymore. :)

hmm..strange/spooky coincidence.
a good friend/colleague of mine posed me this 5_years_from_now question quite recently, too.

I guess at the end we just have to do the things that we love, then things will move progressively. Once, I saw on TV, a successful hotelier said, "I've never taken a holiday, cause I am on holiday when I am at work."

Btw, '5_years_from_now', that looks like a ruby code. :)