26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
6:23 p.m.
On 01/25/2012 07:44 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes indeed.
And yet British politicians fret about why design and technology is
going abroad. I guess American ones might well do the same.
Our politicians speak only of what their analysts tell them will get
them re-elected. It's just like American business; sho:t-term personal
financial gain for executives and their friends, at any cost to the rest
of society, the environment, or the economy, is goal #1.
Now, Americans in general, the few dozen of us left with functioning
brains, fret about it all the time. There seems to be a resurgence in
tech design and manufacturing starting here, but it remains to be seen
if it'll amount to anything. It NEEDS to, or we'll become a third-world
country. And you know how we just love to make fun of those.
If your politicians actually CARE about this issue, applaud them!
"ICT studies" at school now appears to mean
how to send an email and
write a letter in Word. This seems like a very sick joke to me.
Job-training for the digital sweatshop. Meanwhile, a dot-comrade of mine, a chap who's
doing CompSci at the U
of Missouri, had never heard of Lisp Machines and has never used
anything that isn't a member of the C family. Seems like a sad thing
to me, that.
[shakes head]
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA