In last Sunday's NYT, Jacob Hacker sez:

"... If you were one of the fortunate young students who rolled out of a computer-science program back in the 1990s, you may well have ended up in a cushy programming job offering a six-figure salary and lavish bonuses. If, by contrast, you find yourself looking for such a job today, you may discover that the best you can obtain is a contingent position with meager rewards, with the distinct possibility that you will soon be training your foreign replacement or writing the code that will do your old job."

Which is more or less what we've been trying to tell our IPD/web development students for years: learning to program is far less important than learning how to use technology to change the world for the better. Which certainly doesn't guarantee six-figure salaries either (and we should know), but we haven't heard of social activism being outsourced... yet!