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Originally Posted by Collin Fultz
I saw/heard/felt a totally different speech in Atlanta. To me, Dean was saying that outsourcing is ok because America will find something else to do and move on. To me, he said that "outsourcing" brought us together with the rest of the world...made us one planet instead of many different nations. To me, it's time that we think of ourselves as one planet. Some nations already do that...and I commend them. Is America there yet? Kind of...not really. Am I? No...but I'm willing to work on it.
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There are other threads that talk about this; however, Kamen being pro-America is paramount to my stance on the issue.
I wasn't personally at the championship. However from the CD discussion, I can tell Dean gave a similar speech at my school about a month after championship.
In his speech at my school's centenial aniversary he talked about how we might be moving to an era where engineering itself is being outsourced. He doesn't mind outsourcing technology once it becomes a commodity, but he is steadfast in not wanting the US to lose it's position as the number one technology innovator in the world.
Perhaps I'm twisting his words, but I don't think so. It seemed a lot of folks on CD felt that his championship speech ignored the international teams.