I have been delayed a little in updating the results pages. Sometimes trying to debug a program (problems with contingency allowance) is like trying to chase a mouse through a giant block of Swiss cheese with a thousand variations on escape exit. It'll take a couple more days.
Next thing - I was reading a blog on a news site yesterday and saw something like "Is the Manufacturing Sector Worth Saving?". Just a thought beyond this. We are told that we are good at design, technology and innovation.
OK - yes, perhaps - but remember that 40 or so years ago we were good at a whole load of manufacturing but found that the hassle of organising making things (industrial relations, safety regulations, recruiting, training, maintaining equipment etc) was best had by people in the far east.
Now - think forward just 20 years (or even 10 or maybe even 5 years) when our current providers of electrical goods in the far east (and everything else) have taken over the design - which they are already doing. What then?
And don't forget the present, not everybody can design computer games - our old industrial society found a job for most people.
Soon our post industrial society might not even provide jobs for our clever designers. Our suppliers of goods will be designing and marketing them as well.
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