Angel of Death
One of my Australian readers (Shaun A. Saunders who wrote the book Mallcity 14) dropped me an email today to give me an update on his fellow countryman Mike O’Dwyer who I had previously written about in Secrets & Lies. It seems that O’Dwyer is claiming that he has been offered $100 million by the China to develop his technology for them. Of course, he nobly claims to have rejected the offer.
My sensitively tuned spin detector is twitching in the cynical zone at this news. I wonder if the announcement of the Chinese interest is related to the way the share price of his company has dropped from AU$2.65 in 2000 to a price at one point today of $0.135. It does strike me that O’Dwyer’s latest announcement is another good bit of media bravado by a man who has never been short of the ability to push himself and his company forward effectively in the press.
Of course, I could be misjudging Mr. O’Dwyer, though I do note that he has not challenged my previous judgement – published on three continents including Australasia – of him as an ‘angel of death’.
My sensitively tuned spin detector is twitching in the cynical zone at this news. I wonder if the announcement of the Chinese interest is related to the way the share price of his company has dropped from AU$2.65 in 2000 to a price at one point today of $0.135. It does strike me that O’Dwyer’s latest announcement is another good bit of media bravado by a man who has never been short of the ability to push himself and his company forward effectively in the press.
Of course, I could be misjudging Mr. O’Dwyer, though I do note that he has not challenged my previous judgement – published on three continents including Australasia – of him as an ‘angel of death’.
4 Comments:
Perhaps you hit nail on the head and there is nothing for him to defend...Dr. John said I ought stop by. I do love your perspectives.
Spin indeed. It seems to me that anybody who could concieve of and create technology like this cannot have much of a conscience.
I ran in here with the Dr. John Marathon, then stayed to read.
It sounds like he’s pulling one of those old used-car-salesman marketing strategies. Didn’t Gerald Bull go down that road?
The comparison with Bull is an interesting one.
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