There are a few people here who take an interest in the big picture of metalworking manufacturing -- in terms of jobs, specifically -- and who follow the discussions about globalization, automation, and so on.

For anyone interested, this article from 1996, which I don't remember reading at the time but which I strongly agreed with then, is a neck-snapper. The author was prescient; he could have written the same article last month, and people would have remarked that he has the insights:

"Start Taking the Backlash Against Globalization Seriously" by Klaus Schwab

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/01/op...seriously.html

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Ed Huntress