Mr Schmidt/ Steve Jobs

So Mr Schmidt decides to give the UK the benefit of his knowledge and experience and lecture us. In many ways he was completely right but in other ways he was 100% wrong. America doesn't produce originality, America doesn't produce the great thinkers it should, America is a country of implementors and spenders. It is not a nation of inventors. Now a country of implementors in the manner of China and the USA is what ultimately deliver wealth but truly America needs quirky countries like the UK.

Countries that produce outrageous genius, that experiment with idiotic ideas such as our 30 year experiment with the comprehensive system. These countries produce people that think a different way, that come up with the idea of the internet. The UK is a loser as it doesn't do as Mr Schmidt says, but the world is a winner. The more we all become American the more creativity dies in the world. Creativity requires variety and experimentation. The truisms he spoke do lead to great break throughs they deliver implementors.

Mr Jobs was the ultimate implementor, the ultimate business man. He took great ideas from others, the mouse, the mp3 player and simply did them better than anyone else. He was not a genius in the true sense of the word, someone who radically changes the world with fundamentally new ideas no one has thought of, he is the implementor who takes the ideas of others and shows the world the true potential of them. Perhaps that is genius i am just showing my prejeudice.

The world is a poorer place with out its ultimate implementor, who changes the world the implementor or the ideas man? The chicken or the egg. I don't know, but i know who i worship it is the ideas man/woman. They are the insane crowd, the people on the edge, the people going against society, those that risk scorn in their own time, those that push their brains to the limit.

America produces too few true ideas men, and the UK produces far to few implementors, but in the unequal exchange there is only one winner and that is the US.