Two Words from Bill Gates: Computer Science!

[News Writer]

It wasn't "Plastics" as Dustin Hoffman was advised in the movie The Graduate, but computers that Bill Gates (news - web sites) told a college audience would be the ticket to a good career in the near future. "You can't go wrong in computer science," the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect advised students at the University of California at Berkeley during a Friday appearance.

Some UC-Berkeley students, however, were unhappy with the way Gates responded to questions about increasing competition for jobs from China and India. "It is a little scary for me to see people thinking of this as a zero-sum game. It is not like a war where you have one winner and one loser," Gates told the students during his appearance. "China and India are the big change engines for the years ahead, and as we embrace that and understand our new role in that, that's the path forward."

Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...pcworld/118029

[peaz]

Some UC-Berkeley students, however, were unhappy with the way Gates responded to questions about increasing competition for jobs from China and India. "It is a little scary for me to see people thinking of this as a zero-sum game. It is not like a war where you have one winner and one loser," Gates told the students during his appearance. "China and India are the big change engines for the years ahead, and as we embrace that and understand our new role in that, that's the path forward."

my gosh.. i can't believe they can be unhappy with such a wise answer.... it'll be very stupid to think that those rising economies are threats instead of something that'll be good to the world economy. I can only see good things coming from these two countries.

It is a little scary for me to see people thinking of this as a zero-sum game

Indeed it is...

and as we embrace that and understand our new role in that, that's the path forward.

And well said too