There’s an article in The Times today from James Dyson: Make Things For The Real World, Not The Web. Unfortunately The Times is a pay site so unless you’re a subscriber you won’t be able to read it, or a luddite like me and you read the paper version, I still much prefer reading on paper.
The article opens with the following:
Though I use Google every day (I confess I am not on Facebook), I believe the next revolution of industry will be in the real world: tangible. Steve Jobs had it right: you want to be able to lick new technology, not just “like” it. But there is a risk that the development of tangible technologies is being overlooked in favour of fashionable web development.
Further into the article James Dyson talks of how Caterpillar, who make tangible items, are a far bigger company than Facebook. This is undoubtedly true, but I disagree with some of James Dyson’s premise. This is of course a quandary for me as James Dyson is a man of invention whom I admire greatly, I even have a Dyson vacuum cleaner and a bloody good product it is. However I feel the world is turning and whereas the really big companies will be making tangible goods, opportunity is knocking for those making digital goods and products for the web.
