The UK demographic revolution due over the next decade is of course responsible for the much-trumpeted projections about skills shortages – there is, however, a darker side to the problem: for, according to editorial comment in The Economist the majority of shareholders will soon be elderly citizens, and, consequently, the successful chairman of the 1990s will be the one who has a way with old ladies; does this mean we can expect a spate of portable computer ranges called things like the lapdog or even, horror of horrors, a computerised shopping trolley with facilities for converting decimalised coinage into good old UKP, s. and d. for more accurate moaning about inflation?
