Comments by "Siana Gearz" (@SianaGearz) on "Why the Indian Computer Failed" video.

  1. It's a horrible waste of money. We have seen that in Russia. Massive amounts of money and no output. Plus the expetise of the institutes maintained this way is... debatable, since their hands-on experience is with long obsolete technology and doesn't include overcoming scale and quality obstacles. The premise that you can have a handful of experts is flawed, since production of semiconductors requires combined expertise of thousands of people, whether these people actually do something or only sit on their hands because they don't have equipment funds, a customer, etc. Every person is capable of developing and internalising experise in only a very small part of the process. Then you have brain drain, you teach up people as best you can, but after a while sitting on their hands, people get frustrated and up and go somewhere where they can develop their skill more and they never come back. Hibernated insular industries are extremely wasteful. You either need to leverage someone else's hard earned expertise and economy of scale, or you develop your capability to competitiveness, either way you need to slot into the international ecosystem.
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