Virtual immigration v. education dilemma

I know this is a little off topic for this blog; however, it is interesting stuff for the future. Perhaps our public school students will one day be taught by a virtual immigrant, and we will have no need for Twi-lite supers' in the new world.

Technology driven alternative - virtual immigration. Work that doesn't require local market knowledge or face-to-face contact with customers is increasingly performed in distant locations and shipped back across national borders.

Much of virtual immigrants' work involves importing or exporting specialized knowledge and information. A US based company may send financial data to New Delhi, where an Indian bookkeeper cobbles it into a report. For US companies virtual immigration enhances global competitiveness, and US services firms grow and profit by expanding overseas.

Developed nations like the US have an abundance of highly skilled workers and this highly skilled talent with knowledge is usually exported to developing nations via virtual immigration. The work of lawyers, accountants, architects, consultants, and engineers are just a few examples of knowledge exported from the US by virtual immigrants. US legal knowledge ranked high on the virtual immigrant export list from the US. An over abundance supply of lawyers in the US has caused them to seek work outside the country and many have taken on the role of virtual immigrants.

Many argue that outsourcing is bad; however, outsourcing is a two way street and the US has received a net gain from outsourcing. We need to get off our 'high horse' and start inventing things we can manufacture here in the US with our skilled labor force. Then again one has to ask do we have a skilled labor force in this country? Our public school results support the fact we have a dwindling educated labor force in this country. Could one make the argument that professional educators turned school administrators have been the down fall in the reduction of our educated labor force? A question to be pondered by the not so educated!