Look at the video games industry. People travel from all over the world to study in *Dundee* of all places, which for the Americans here is about the side of Br

Look at the video games industry. People travel from all over the world to study in *Dundee* of all places, which for the Americans here is about the side of Bridgeport, Connecticut, simply because the universities there offer the best courses possible about developing and marketing video games. Why? Because in the 1980s, when Dundee was the heroin death and teenage pregnancy capital of Europe and unemployment was at something like 45%, one of the employers that *was* there was Timex, where they made the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and so everyone had a ZX Spectrum because everyone's dad "knew a man down the pub who could get them". Everyone owned one, so everyone who had a modicum of talent could write games for them, and if your games were any good then within a day or two everyone in your high school had a copy of it. Loads of folk in the tech industry who grew up in Scotland in the 1980s owe their livelihood to some guy in the Planet Bar in Lochee who could get knocked Spectrums for 100 quid...