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No.10 guru: UK tech scene is AN EXPLODING CHEESE
Rohan Silva - Downing Street's backroom adviser credited with hyping east London's Silicon Roundabout of tech startups - has given a rare interview. Speaking to WiReD UK, the "senior policy adviser" to the Prime Minister attempted to find a metaphor for the phenomenon. This is what he came up with. I think a tech scene is …
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 08:29 GMT amanfromMars 1
The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth, .... so Help Me Global Operating Devices
Rohan Silva - Downing Street's backroom adviser credited with hyping east London's Silicon Roundabout of tech startups - has given a rare interview. Speaking to WiReD UK, the "senior policy adviser" to the Prime Minister attempted to find a metaphor for the phenomenon.
Methinks. Andrew, the Prime Minister is in dire straits need of much better senior policy advisers.
And, if that is disagreeable to the Prime Minister, the nation in dire straits need of a new PM.
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 08:29 GMT Magister
Title probably tells you all that you need to know
Basically, the government are relying on "advisors" (I use the term in the loosest possible sense of the word) that think marketing is more important than substance.
"It is a tale
Told by an idiot
Full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing. "
(Macbeth)
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 11:59 GMT LinkOfHyrule
Re: A tesco value processed cheese slice.
Totally off topic but you can get Tesco Value Stilton now - Its obviously the same old Stilton you know and love (it would be illegal to sell it if it wasnt) but its wedge is somewhat crumbled at the apex you could say, hence they are flogging it off a bit cheaper.
This is actually not one of my dumb joke comments either. And yes I know it's off topic but seeing as the topic is a bloke who uses shit cheese metaphors its a valid point to make I feel!
Paris cos I heard she smells Stiltony.
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 08:30 GMT Frankee Llonnygog
No 10 can't tell cheese from dynamite
They really are fantastically clueless. From the interview: 'Innovation doesn't happen through the workings of some "great computer in the sky", but through dispersed information and power'.
And yet, the one thing the Gov fails to mandate is the means of dispersing information, for Tech City is ubiquitous, fast, fat comms. As has been often pointed out, we already have a Tech City, Cambridge, but it's not so handy for ministerial photo opps.
I'm sure overseas firms will jump at his offer of desk space in London. They'll use it as a base for their sales staff to go out and undercut UK-based outfits, and offshore the work to their home country.
They already know all too well that an information-centric tech-city, in the 21st century, does not need to be physically clustered around latte shops, but virtually, around ready supplies of bandwidth, clever graduates and money.
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 12:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
Exploding, almost
Closest I got to that, was what we used to do at school.
If we had any Dairylea or Laughing Cow cheese triangles (squishy cheese in a foil wrap) left over, we'd place them in the road by the playground, and wait to see if any cars would run over them..... and how many splats it would make up the road. Such fun.
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 12:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
This is how poor UK politics is
Look at this, I bet this guy doesn't even know conceptually the components of a PC:
"Rohan Silva was previously Senior Policy Adviser for the 2010 General Election and Economic Adviser to the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. Prior to this, Rohan was a Policy Analyst at HM Treasury. Rohan is also a trustee of the Battersea Arts Centre and on the advisory panel of the Progressive Conservatism project at the think tank Demos."
Setting up a CIO or a CTO office for the UK government? Central procurement office for IT and office equiment? Development of a secure OS platform for government functions?
Nothing of this sort - just a nobody in front of a reporter, babbling outmoded, 10 year old stuff. You really have to look at Germany, South Korea, Australia and Russia to see real IT management - and progress.
You would expect different from a government keen to balance the economy with an industry that promises future technologies and jobs.
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 13:51 GMT Dave 15
clueless
The guy is clearly an idiot... but he advising cam MORON so it probably doesn't matter. As normal the UK tax payer is being fleeced of millions to pay idiots, spin yarns and help foreign corporations to do better.
Killing both the tax payer and UK companies in the process.
Typical
What I wonder is just how we have ANY business of any sort left in the UK - anything that can leave has.
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Wednesday 6th March 2013 14:45 GMT Kubla Cant
Ignoramus
...a fine cheese – there’s a moment when it all comes together...
This half-wit clearly knows as much about cheese-making as he does about IT. It sounds like he thinks cheese is made from lots of different ingredients, and when you combine them, it's finished. In fact, cheese is mostly just milk, with the addition of rennet to induce curdling, and perhaps a mould culture. It becomes "fine cheese" with keeping.
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