Gavin writes:

> Someone here recently had occasion to call DELL for tech support and found
>  himself talking to someone in India!
>
>  I'm somewhat amazed that the communication cost can be made low enough to
>  make this sort of thing viable.

95% of the world-wide undersea fiber optic cable is currently dark. People
are desperately trying to find an (even marginally profitable) use for all of
this excess bandwidth. The world has become a very small place all of a
sudden, as no place is now beyond cheap and virtually instantaneous
world-wide communications.

If people have complained about jobs being shipped off-shore before, wait for
the giant sucking sound as this cable is lit. The educational system in India
is at least as good as it is the US, and for those who fully take advantage
of it, it's much better. What this means is that India is posed on the verge
of extraordinary prosperity, if it can get its population under control and
simultaneously eliminate its multitudinous levels of governmental bureaucracy.

Wirt Atmar

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