So.... since the development of search engines and access to vast information on the Internet, has this contributed or will in the future contribute to the devaluation of salaries in the IT industry? Will the requirement for the IT techie-type person in the future be a little bit of knowledge and good search-engine skills?
IT 'Profession' devalued
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'IT' is a vast industry.
There will always be a requirement for people with specialized technical skillsets, what will change is the value of specific skillsets (supply & demand). For example salaries for Oracle database contractors will always pwn frontline helpdesk workers.
There will always be a requirement for people with specialized technical skillsets, what will change is the value of specific skillsets (supply & demand). For example salaries for Oracle database contractors will always pwn frontline helpdesk workers.
what i meant to say is, 50% or more of the population are completely ignorant to all aspects of I.T beyond surfing the web and checking emails, they also have no desire whatsoever to learn, google etc makes it very easy but you still have to have the enthusiasm to go and find out, most people cant be assed and never will be, which is why I.T the same as a lot of other industries will continue to survive
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Surely the OP's point could apply to a lot of professions as much as it applies to IT?
the Wire much ? (sorry not related to thread at all)
Sums it up quite well really. Also many people who may be willing may be unsure how to apply the information they have found. Not every article/forum post/whatever comes as a neat step-by-step from start to finish.
90% of the people I deal with regularly in my job are almost utterly indifferent to computers once they have access to iTunes/Spotify/Facebook.
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Pancake.
Market trends are moving towards provision of information being less dependent on 'IT people' in terms dashboards, online interactive MI/BI and the like (as opposed to, sending Jo Bloggs a memo asking to fish out stats XYZ). That doesn't make IT redundant however, just means the balance of roles in the industry can change somewhat.
sorry I must have your name wrong then, Stringer Bell is one of the main characters in the first three series of the "The Wire" tv show
meoww, although im not an I.T techie so shouldnt be offended 
I kind of get what you mean, I'm guilty of it myself in that if I come across an error or issue I haven't seen before the first thing I do these days is to 'Google it'. Most of the time I figure someone else will have had the problem, found a fix and posted it online so it can often save a lot of time.
It certainly won't impact all area's of IT though, when you get to 3rd level support or design roles then it doesn't do you as much good, it's not like I could easily google 'Design me a Config Manager 2007 infrastructure for supporting 100,000 + clients', print out the results and hand them in as a done project. When you get to the higher levels of IT work I've found that you really need to have an indepth knowledge of the areas you cover and your google skills will only take you so far.
I'm more worried about the <insert foreign nation nicking our jobs here> and the 'Best Shoring' of work to someone who will do it for the price of 2 chickens and a packet of skittles
It certainly won't impact all area's of IT though, when you get to 3rd level support or design roles then it doesn't do you as much good, it's not like I could easily google 'Design me a Config Manager 2007 infrastructure for supporting 100,000 + clients', print out the results and hand them in as a done project. When you get to the higher levels of IT work I've found that you really need to have an indepth knowledge of the areas you cover and your google skills will only take you so far.
I'm more worried about the <insert foreign nation nicking our jobs here> and the 'Best Shoring' of work to someone who will do it for the price of 2 chickens and a packet of skittles
I kind of get what you mean, I'm guilty of it myself in that if I come across an error or issue I haven't seen before the first thing I do these days is to 'Google it'. Most of the time I figure someone else will have had the problem, found a fix and posted it online so it can often save a lot of time.
It certainly won't impact all area's of IT though, when you get to 3rd level support or design roles then it doesn't do you as much good, it's not like I could easily google 'Design me a Config Manager 2007 infrastructure for supporting 100,000 + clients', print out the results and hand them in as a done project. When you get to the higher levels of IT work I've found that you really need to have an indepth knowledge of the areas you cover and your google skills will only take you so far.
I'm more worried about the <insert foreign nation nicking our jobs here> and the 'Best Shoring' of work to someone who will do it for the price of 2 chickens and a packet of skittles
The problem is, those "best shoring" nations like India for example which I assume is who you're thinking of do the job better than you do.
"it depends", but mostly no.
These days, anyone with a mind for it can do the IT in unboxing PCs, setting them up and doing some basic troubleshooting. That hasn't always been the case.
But skilled IT work is still skilled and no amount of Google will replace that skill. Sure, I use Google several times every day to solve problems, but I still need the skill to interpret what I find and put it into practice. Until Google can write the code for me that's going to continue to be the case.
What is bringing wages down is the number of people trying to get 'on the ladder', and the number of (very smart) people in Eastern Europe, Russia, etc. who are willing to do the same job for half the wage or a lot less.
These days, anyone with a mind for it can do the IT in unboxing PCs, setting them up and doing some basic troubleshooting. That hasn't always been the case.
But skilled IT work is still skilled and no amount of Google will replace that skill. Sure, I use Google several times every day to solve problems, but I still need the skill to interpret what I find and put it into practice. Until Google can write the code for me that's going to continue to be the case.
What is bringing wages down is the number of people trying to get 'on the ladder', and the number of (very smart) people in Eastern Europe, Russia, etc. who are willing to do the same job for half the wage or a lot less.