Will AI Kill This Group?

I stayed in contact with the ones I worked with at EMI Central Research for a decade or so - basically until my wife moved me to the Netherlands

- and they seemed to do okay. It was a remarkably coherent group.

The mob at Cambridge Instruments also seemed to do okay. A couple of the better ones have set up a hardware consultancy in Cambridge and seemed to be doing okay - nothing dramatic, but okay - when I was last in contact.

Cambridge Instruments employed about 800 people when I joined in 1982, and had shed about half of them when I got made redundant in 1991. It's now down to about a hundred. They had a big machine shop with a lot of expert machinists in my time and that's gone.

I put the last three years of my weekly reports at Cambridge Instruments on my website about twenty years after I'd written them, and some of the engineers from that time were interested. That project hadn't been well managed - I'd been the senior engineer, but not a manager, and I'd added a certain amount of hindsight commentary about where things had gone wrong.

I'd started the write-up hoping that I could do a Tracy Kidder on the project, but it turned out that I lack that kind of talent.

That's what Edward Rawde seems to believe. Some people might disagree.

Clearly untrue.

But only the one you come up with for yourself.

The compeeyudah did it !

RL