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Yes, although ARM came out of that and now look at that (...or your smartphone) so its not all a disaster. The Raspberry Pi is a spiritual successor which I am
by mattlondon 7y ago
Yes, although ARM came out of that and now look at that (...or your smartphone) so its not all a disaster.
The Raspberry Pi is a spiritual successor which I am generally pleased to see. The RPi was I think partly responsible for a real Computer Science curriculum getting back into schools ... I hate to say it but I think it was Michael Gove that made this happen!
- cstross 7y agoArm Holdings is now owned by Japan's Softbank, because a Conservative (business-first) administration thought selling off the family silver was a fine idea. This is pretty typical of the UK government's approach to the computer hardware/software industry. Had the first business computer industry in Europe (anyone else remember the LEO line of mainframes?) and a promising software biz, of which only bits remain. (The gaming industry is thriving, but the rest mostly ended up being absorbed by US multinationals. I could speculate that having a common language, in combination with a series of governments who believed in leaving things to the Invisible Hand, and a business culture dominated by accountants, were at the root of the problem ...)
- ethbro 7y agoCoemergence of government competence in invention and supporting application seems almost as rare as companies delivering on a second blockbuster idea. Which kind of speaks to the prevalence of luck over design in favorable outcomes at any macro level. Too many small, randomly whirling bits, and they all need to line up just so.