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RE: If anything this illustrates the decline of the UK
by kwan_e on Fri 27th Apr 2012 07:48
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Or perhaps the world in general. It's the penultimate triumph of form over substance; a boring industrial designer, who in terms of technology has produced basically nil, getting promoted over a genius like Turing whose ideas transformed the world in what now seems almost an infinite number ways.
The shortsightedness of such election, makes this "Visionary" award the more ironic.