The introduction of computer science prompted arts campaigners to call for a further widening of the English Baccalaureate.
Then the big boys with global licences arrive: Lego to make construction kits (build your own Hogwarts castle), Mattel to make Harry Potter toys, and Electronic Arts computer games including, finally, a chance to play the obscure game of Quidditch (a bit like an aerial version of polo, but with the contestants flying on broomsticks).
Peter Moore, chief operating officer of Electronic Arts, said it had been attracted by the level of local talent, and praised local universities for offering computer science and digital arts degrees.
Where engineering in the 1880s organized itself around lines suggested by the physical sciences, the new technologists are organizing in new ways, along lines suggested by the cognitive, aesthetic and social sciences and arts: computer science, psychology, social psychology, user-experience and design.
Plugged In also runs a programme called Community Kids which hosts 55 children each day after school and involves them in hands-on arts and crafts and computer projects.
Valentine was among the original investors in Apple Computer, Oracle, LSI Logic, Electronic Arts and Cisco Systems.
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"Suddenly, things you wouldn't say out loud in conversation are OK to say because you're sitting behind a computer screen, " says Kimberly Kaye, 26, an arts writer in New York.
This may provide some comfort to parents who have recently sent in deposits and are worrying about the futility of a liberal arts education versus more practical degrees in engineering, computer science or say, nursing.
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L.A., and show greater improvement, than students majoring in non-liberal-arts fields such as business, education and social work, communications, engineering and computer science, and health.
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