http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/06/britains_media_obsession.html
So on the day that Carter’s conclusions are published, one question is why the digital industries are more deserving of ministerial attention than - say - pharmaceuticals, or defence, or motor manufacturing, or food and drink, or civil aviation
err, because the former is at best a 20 year old industry, and realistically, about a 5-10 year old industry.
It’s one of the few global industries that is really growing at a clip. And in that old fashioned sense, actually producing goods people want to spend their cash on.
It is critical to the future, and a lot of people / governments / established industries are a bit rubbish at it.
The others are all well established, global industries that are typically well understood.
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