said by Zoder:said by howardfine:John Naisbitt, who ran a company that tracked trends of what countries were doing by reading their newspapers and magazines. His book, "Megatrends 2000", said manufacturing would leave the US and everything would be a global manufacturing process and the US would become the designer/creator/thinker/innovator/developer of those products.
Good luck with that. R&D centers are already being placed in India and China so they can be close to the manufacturing centers.
Um. Starting to do something 12 years later does not make the trend wrong. And, what he wrote about, was a trend, not a prediction.
Also, why does R&D have to be near manufacturing? And IF such a thing is happening, it doesn't mean it's happening with all of them, and I'd venture to say it isn't happening much at all. In fact, I'm fully aware of companies that have regretted doing such a thing and have pulled out of India.
