Dyson creator worried games development sucking up too many graduates

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Vacuum cleaner revolutionary Sir James Dyson is worried that too many British technology graduates are being swept up by the prospect of success in the video games industry.
Tech-minded students are increasingly abandoning traditional engineering roles, Dyson told the Radio Times (thanks, GamesIndustry), instead wanting to clean up creating games instead.
"The glamour of web fads and video gaming" was now more attractive than "tangible technology that we can export," he argued. "The government must do more to attract the brightest and best into engineering and science so that we can compete internationally.
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