The pros and cons of the digital future

"The geek dividend. New tax breaks are coming to halt the exodus abroad of game-inventing nerds" (Budget 2010: The good, the bad and the scrumpy, 25 March). Bloody hell! What kind of vapid ignorance is this?! I switched to the Guardian from the Independent because of the latter's anti-technology attitudes, and yet here you are pandering to the same smug, outdated, insecure, luddite views! Grow up!

Professor Richard Bartle
School of computer science and electronic engineering, University of Essex