Boomers bidding farewell...
This ComputerWorld Special Report on IT careers in 2010 echos my last post about the coming exodus of the baby boom generation and the effect of their retirement on the IT profession. I would suggest that the IT profession is simply one area of Science & Technology that will be greatly affected by this phenomenon.
For example, as stated in the article:
Government is also vulnerable. "About 400,000 federal employees could retire tomorrow," says Robert Rosen, CIO at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Rosen is also president of Share, a Chicago-based IBM user group. "Obviously, this is a concern at NIH."