sounds grim
I like the sound of Toni Bowers's article on skills in demand, better.
SAAS and cloud are gimmicks, gimmicks which take away control of information from the individual and put it in the hands of the dedicated/determined privacy violators.
Bodyshopping has been worsening since the early 1980s, but that doesn't mean that it is good or that professionals should meekly go along with being abused.
I disagree with tbostwick, too. We have a lot of lower quality software these days, in part, due to the move away from proprietary systems. When there were lots of competing proprietary systems you couldn't pawn garbage like Windoze off on customers because there were much better alternatives. And each computer vendor had great incentives to try to keep improving their hardware, operating system, compilers, linkage editors, loaders, and applications, and to cultivate 3rd party software product development firms. Now it's, "Well, it doesn't really do what we want, but it's cheap, so let's spend a bunch of money on shoe-horning it into what we want by contracting with bodyshops."
Mandolinface, I haven't known or even heard of a "good technical document writer", or seen any good technical documentation for over a decade.
