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Tue 08 Aug 2008The rhetoric of a knowledge society does not compute
The reason our young people don't care about maths and science is that we have smugly neglected ICT education, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE
WHAT IRELAND did in the 1990s is something that had never really been done before by anyone. We imported development. Most modern economies plugged foreign direct investment into an existing set of skills, traditions, resources. But, to an overwhelming extent, we depended on the attraction of fully-formed global corporations, who brought with them world-leading technologies and processes.
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