When Eric Schmidt delivered his MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival this summer he spoke of the importance of bringing the worlds of art and science back together if Britain’s creative industries are to succeed in the digital era. Luvvies and boffins, he said, need to work together. Rambert Dance company ’s artistic director Mark Baldwin and resident scientist Professor Nicola Clayton explained how they worked together to create Comedy of Change , a ballet based on Darwin’s theory of evolution. Eidos and author of Next Gen , a new report on the future of our creative industries, made a passionate plea to the Government to include computer science in the schools curriculum.David Willetts dropped in and showed he’s listening. This week the government responded positively to Ian Livingstone’s report, Prime Minister David Cameron agreeing that “we're not doing enough to teach the next generation of programmers.”Posted by Peter Barron, Director, External Relations, Europe Middle East and Africa
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