SAP | Michio Kaku fires off on America’s H-1B ‘genius visa’ and declining skilled worker population domestically
January 25, 2012
Full video, from SAP’s Sapphire Now/TedEd conference in Madrid, Spain, November 8-10, 2011. (The Big Think panel discussion transcript is here.):
The72tube | Michio Kaku, Ph.D., speaks about how America’s poor educational system has created a shortage of Americans who can perform highly skilled technology jobs. As a result, America’s H-1B “genius visa” is used to attract immigrants who are skilled enough to perform these jobs.
Big Think | Booz & Company’s Chief and Marketing and Knowledge Officer Tom Stewart moderated the SAP Sapphire Now event’s Big Think panel — made up of Michael Schrage, MIT Sloan School of Management research fellow; theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku; Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the X-Prize Foundation; and Isabel Aguilera, former CEO of Google’s Spain & Portugal operations.
Related:
Google+ | Interesting debate about this video and the “marketing of positivism”
SAP | Watch replays of Sapphire Now/TechEd Madrid online
Computer Business Review | “SAP HANA: In-memory — in demand?”
Michio Kaku
Comments (2)
by jgo
There was no shortage of bright, creative, knowledgeable, industrious US citizen STEM workers. There is no such shortage, and no evidence of a shortage or impending shortage has been presented. Ever.
http://www.kermitrose.com/econSummaryAnalysis.html#Media
by Thomas Jensen
First time I’ve seen a scientist live using the DUH! word! LOL But he’s right, and it happens in other countries too, not just the US.