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If you've ever wondered whether a consumer electronics industry is still worth having, you might be interested in the news that the US Dept of Defense has just bought 336 old-shape Playstation 3 consoles to develop into a cut-price military supercom…
December 12
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If you've ever wondered whether a consumer electronics industry is still worth having, you might be interested in the news that the US Dept of Defense has just bought 336 old-shape Playstation 3 consoles to develop into a cut-price military supercom…
December 12
There are two very useful resources on this debate fellow Crunchers might like to be aware of. The first is yesterday's Open Letter to the UN Secretary-General from sceptics about climate change in the science community. It's too long to publish her…
December 9
Thanks for your comments AJ. You're right about choosing the angle for the message carefully, and it's also hard to balance the size and scope of what needs to be discussed with what teachers feel comfortable with. I do plan on it being a long term…
December 8
Graham, this is awesome. We'll help with traction however we can. I certainly agree that there is a strong need to promote manufacturing to generations that have been removed from the day-to-day exposure and reliance on it to survive. It requires a…
December 7
A blog post by Graham Rankin was featured
Contributors to Manufacturing Crunch believe in manufacturing, but we all have our different ways to promote it. My view is that unless we get more young people interested very soon in innovating and inventing, and actually making stuff, the tidal w…
December 6
Graham Rankin added a blog post
Contributors to Manufacturing Crunch believe in manufacturing, but we all have our different ways to promote it. My take is that unless we get more young people interested very soon in innovating and inventing, and actually making stuff, the tidal w…
December 5
A blog post by Graham Rankin was featured
It's not often billionaire capitalists do some hard thinking about the effect of the influence of the super-rich and the political elites on society. But one who did was multi-billionaire James Goldsmith. In 1994, he gave an interview with Charlie R…
November 27
Graham Rankin added a blog post
It's not often billionaire capitalists do some hard thinking about the effect of the influence of the super-rich and the political elites on society. But one who did was multi-billionaire James Goldsmith. In 1994, he gave an interview with Charlie R…
November 27
A blog post by Graham Rankin was featured
While the debate over outsourced production and the loss of manufacturing capacity continues, home-based manufacturers aren't always aware of one of the best arguments against outsourcing in the arsenal: the pollution caused by global shipping. Make…
November 22
Graham Rankin added a blog post
While the debate over outsourced production and the loss of manufacturing capacity continues, home-based manufacturers aren't always aware of one of the best arguments against outsourcing in the arsenal: the pollution caused by global shipping. Make…
November 22
A blog post by Graham Rankin was featured
If the recent report in The Nation, reprinted in the UK Guardian today is true, US forces are handing over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the Taliban (yes, you did read that correctly) to allow lorry convoys of essential military supplies…
November 13
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If the recent report in The Nation, reprinted in the UK Guardian today is true, US forces are handing over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the Taliban (yes, you did read that correctly) to allow lorry convoys of essential military supplies…
November 13
Ironically, given the size of its bank account, Apple has also shown up an Achilles' Heel of outsourcing, in the gap between design and marketing priorities on the one hand and actual production needs and product development on the other. Apple desi…
November 7
A blog post by Graham Rankin was featured
We Over-40's remember how it felt to live through the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of Apartheid – we even remember the hilariously misconceived 'End of History,' although that one only seemed to last a couple of mont…
October 21
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We Over-40's remember how it felt to live through the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of Apartheid – we even remember the hilariously misconceived 'End of History,' although that one only seemed to last a couple of mont…
October 21

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Of Playstations And Battle Stations

If you've ever wondered whether a consumer electronics industry is still worth having, you might be interested in the news that the US Dept of Defense has just bought 336 old-shape Playstation 3 consoles to develop into a cut-price military supercomputer (ten times cheaper per GFlop than traditional supercomputer architecture). The old-shape one can run Linux, but the new slimmer one can't, so they're being bought up now while stocks last.

This idea is not new, with the University of Illinois b… Continue

Posted on December 12, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Graham Rankin

The COOLXmas Competition

Contributors to Manufacturing Crunch believe in manufacturing, but we all have our different ways to promote it. My view is that unless we get more young people interested very soon in innovating and inventing, and actually making stuff, the tidal wave of retirement of skilled workers that's coming ever closer is going to leave us high and dry with half-empty factories, which will be doubly tragic given that we're now winning the arguments against outsourcing all over the place.

There are great… Continue

Posted on December 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Graham Rankin

Back To The Present

It's not often billionaire capitalists do some hard thinking about the effect of the influence of the super-rich and the political elites on society. But one who did was multi-billionaire James Goldsmith. In 1994, he gave an interview with Charlie Rose on Bloomberg, in which he warned, with astonishing prescience, about the likely repercussions from GATT, and its consequences for Western manufacturing and globalisation.

He called GATT the most important economic change in our lifetime, which wo… Continue

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 3:30am —

Graham Rankin

Missing the boat?

While the debate over outsourced production and the loss of manufacturing capacity continues, home-based manufacturers aren't always aware of one of the best arguments against outsourcing in the arsenal: the pollution caused by global shipping. Makers of SUV's are on the ropes and even Hummer is now a Chinese brand. Yet what if just 16 of the largest container ships caused more sulfur pollution than all of the world's vehicles put together? That's not just all the world's SUV's, that's all the v… Continue

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 6:30am —

Graham Rankin

There's Gold In Them Thar Hills

If the recent report in The Nation, reprinted in the UK Guardian today is true, US forces are handing over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the Taliban (yes, you did read that correctly) to allow lorry convoys of essential military supplies to get to their destination. This is of course encouraging the McTaliban franchise to open up branches anywhere in Afghanistan the protection racket can work. The payments already total some 10% of US logistics contracts, a huge sum of money.

If the… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 5:46am —

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