The motivational book Who Moved My Cheese? features two mice and two humans living in a maze -a representation of our ever changing environment, and looking for cheese -representative of happiness. One day they are faced with change: someone moved their cheese. The humans, having counted on the cheese supply to be constant, rant at the unfairness of the fate and head home hungry; while the mice, having noticed the cheese supply dwindling and prepared for the change, rush in search of a new cheese.

No rush, friends. Our cheese won’t move. It has already moved, and keeps on moving. Our cheese is moving to Chindia. On Linkedin, thousands of engineers are applying for your job (and mine).  Grid Computing and Open source might be the new supply of cheese. At least for a while.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, but the most responsive to change.