Cheaper communications and advances in computer technology are allowing service-sector companies to move more and more sophisticated activities to cheaper overseas locations.

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When Microsoft recognized a booming need for IT support to service the networks it powered, it stepped up its giving to US community college programs that offered computer technology degrees.

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Similar technology, in the service of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's sintering hallucinatory cuirasses of solidified computer math, yields splendid contemporary examples of that Schlemmerian impulse, as do the animatronic garments of designer Hussein Chalayan, mediated wearable installations that they are.

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