James Dyson Blames Video Games for Brain Drain
Yes, the man who moved his firm's jobs from the UK to Malaysia moans about
James Dyson is the man behind the vacuum cleaner and the hand dryer and the moving manufacturing jobs from Malmesbury, Wiltshire in 2002 to Malaysia is moaning that video games are stopping UK exports being as strong as they should be.
Let's look at that again: the guy who stopped exporting from the UK complains that "web fads" and "video games" are holding up exports from the UK?
Yes, he tells the Radio Times that, "the glamour of web fads and video gaming" was being put ahead of "tangible technology that we can export".
Even more amusingly this is a man who in his own report made for the Conservatives in 2010 states that:
"I believe that it’s high tech companies that can contribute the most to this new economy. From my perspective, high tech companies are those who, regardless of the sector they are in, are making genuine investments in research and development to gain an advantage over their international counterparts. The UK has numerous examples of these companies – our goal must be to expand their size and number. And we’ll do this by combining our entrepreneurial culture and ability to innovate."
Our emphasis. As far as we can see this includes technology companies involved in video gaming which have been actively lobbying government as well as making innovations such as Raspberry Pi that actually invigorate the sector and bring newly energised young people VIA GAMING into industry.
Source: BBC
Let's look at that again: the guy who stopped exporting from the UK complains that "web fads" and "video games" are holding up exports from the UK?
Yes, he tells the Radio Times that, "the glamour of web fads and video gaming" was being put ahead of "tangible technology that we can export".
Even more amusingly this is a man who in his own report made for the Conservatives in 2010 states that:
"I believe that it’s high tech companies that can contribute the most to this new economy. From my perspective, high tech companies are those who, regardless of the sector they are in, are making genuine investments in research and development to gain an advantage over their international counterparts. The UK has numerous examples of these companies – our goal must be to expand their size and number. And we’ll do this by combining our entrepreneurial culture and ability to innovate."
Our emphasis. As far as we can see this includes technology companies involved in video gaming which have been actively lobbying government as well as making innovations such as Raspberry Pi that actually invigorate the sector and bring newly energised young people VIA GAMING into industry.
Source: BBC
Comments
config 10 Jan 2013 15:38
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Dyson sucks. Fact.