No its not
Its rapidly in decline.
Only the super rich (tope 3%) have money.
Everybody else is currently in hock up to his receding hairline.
Meanwhile the gov sits on its ass while their tax base gets exported over the internet and they haven't got a clue. IETS. Tax free.
Wanna know how much I paid in income taxes last year? $67k. Wanna know what I'm paying this year? Zip. Nada. No real US derived income to declare. Sorry.
FWIW, all my out of work friends are doing the same. No money made in 2002. Busted. 6 figure incomes to nada.
Rich.
Your statement is rich. Fsckin rich.
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
--Alan Perlis
