Computer Engineering...Do I have a future?

learning new things constantly, as the low hanging fruit will be often outsourced to other countries or automated here.

and possibly taking a job that USES computers but is not calling you a 'computer scientist', or possibly even 'programming'.

And you need to have the mindset that computers and their software and technology are not an end in themselves but a powerful tool to apply to research, medicine, biz logistics and finance, document management, simulation & modeling... list is endless

Since the tool has such vast applications, even if you don't become a 'computer scientist', chances are you will be using computers at work in your daily routine.

becoming a computer technology specialist puts you at the more advanced use of computers - creating digital artifacts, programs (if they can still be called that in some areas)

Watch shows like the robot car prize contest on TV. You see groups like the MIT group's display of car simulating ahead what changes to the autodriver would do. Or think of spacecraft software. Other areas are web database sites which require workers but now with packages and web program generators like Ironspeed or Ruby on Rails are becoming automated.

Visual flow software like in Visual studio or Informatica ETL sw or iRise modeling tool where you connect boxes instead of writing code are the future, but not the only future.

Even 3-d animation can use programs to automate large sequences over paths. sony is hiring people to use python scripts interfacing with Maya (you can DL free learning vsn of Maya from autodesk site)

There IS a future but it won't be the one where you can learn a little bit then get paid $80,000 per year sitting at a desk all day and punching code without talking to anyone (except by IM) or listening to MP3's or browsing facebook or ebay or amazon.

You'll need to get out there and kick a**!