I meant in the connotation of bizness, the successor to business (where there had always been a rotating crew of "outsourced people" for certain jobs; in the past - these were a small minority of 'jobs', though):

The obvious trend of international Corporate planning - is for virtually all liabilities (a list to which most personnel have recently been formally added) to be 'outsourced'. Makes for flexibility in dumping an entire 'Company' / or merging with another expendable one, reducing all bonds to junkbonds, effectively: but leaving the Exec. parachutes both larger and more easily deployable.

Since Corporations have become the de-facto substitute for largely-neglected local governance (in too many places - but especially in the US) - I'd suggest that the plans of such asocial entities are the largest force determining the near-future living conditions of those 'interchangeable worker drones':

whose cubicles already need only a giant Water [Cola? = stimulant] Bottle.. to perfectly emulate a hamster cage. Surely these will become smaller; perhaps even fork-lift 'stackable' .. next (?) as cel-fones expand in capability to allow 'Corp-realted activity to continue.. til just before dropping off to sleep. (People + pharm-chem supplements shall soon become inured to 5-hour "sleep outages from work" - we are sooo adaptable..)

Or do you see some other trend in MBA-think which I have missed?



Ashton