Interesting that this article does not mention three things: 1. The designers of the Raspberry Pi have said that while their intention was to design and manufa

Interesting that this article does not mention three things: 1. The designers of the Raspberry Pi have said that while their intention was to design and manufacture the device fully within the UK, the latter turned out to be impossible from a business perspective due to the high import taxes of materials for electronic assembly. 2. Why will the untested potential of the Raspberry Pi "save the UK" when an already extremely successful and much older electronics company like ARM (also based in Cambridge) has already got there first? ARM's devices are used all over the world for the lower power efficiency of their CPU designs, most notably in Apple devices. ARM's success has had no impact on the trend towards services in the UK economy since its founding in 1990. 3. When the size (GDP impact) of the City relative to the UK real economy is six times larger than the size of Wall Street relative to the US real economy, you can be sure that if there is any change it will be very slow indeed. The UK long ago given up the many benefits of engineering and manufacturing. It takes a considerable amount of time to ramp up the expertise to build competitive products in the world today. Just look at the centuries old Germanic Mittlestand and the 40-year Korean engineering sector development - the formerly fastest economic developer in the world. Also, engineering in the UK (unlike in the rest of the EU) has serious cultural and financial downsides plus little government support.