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EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Someone understands

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For most of us, today (Jan 2nd) is the start of a new working year – week 1 on the wall planner. As it’s already Wednesday, better consider that as week ‘nearly-2’, perhaps. Best wishes for all your enterprises in the 51-and-a-bit weeks left of 2008.

But before leaving the end-of-year festivities behind, I have to note a most remarkable phenomenon – a daily newspaper columnist, writing an op-ed comment column, who appreciates the technology in the products that our industry creates. This was Leo Lewis, Asia business correspondent of The Times (London), writing in the issue published on December 26th.

Quote;
“Crack open the back of a Nintendo DS, for example, and you stare upon the towering genius of engineers and the organisational brilliance of free markets at their best.”

The complete item is here; worth a read just for the fact of a non-engineering viewpoint that has some grasp of what it is that engineers do.

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