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How To Kill Your Tech Industry
In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism. By Marie Hicks.
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A really interesting read, but not entirely convincing. No real attempt at a proof that, that was the cause of the problems with the UK computer industry. I would say it wasn't that the UK industry was terrible, it was that the US industry was so much better than everyone else.